Ayn Rand Quotes

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Ayn Rand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

Topics

ManSurviveUniqueRewardAnimals

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

Robert Reich

CitySmallYouKnowDetroitSee

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.

Robert H. Schuller

EducationTrainingNeverDifferent

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Stephen Kinzer

FearBuildingNowSoldiersWithout

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.

Tom Sturridge

MountainsClimbDoingPersonEnglish

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

Rumaan Alam

CuteBabyAmericanDressedDresses

People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.

Milton Berle

PeopleMeLongTelevisionSayStar

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Jonathan Sacks

SuccessPassionDoingEnjoyYou

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

Jonathan Haidt

LifeBrainEndFriendsYouDown

I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

TimeWomanSchoolLookingLookSaid

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

Claire Messud

LiveTruthThinkFactsRealityYou

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Chuck Tanner

BaseballYouAtlantaWayPlaying

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Thomas E. Mann

PoliticalEnjoyValuesWayBeyond

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