Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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VIKRANT PARSAI And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.
LEIGH BARDUGO Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is lon...
LAURA LIPPMAN Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a team...
CHRIS ADAMS I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
CLARENCE THOMAS Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so y...
TIM THARP Naturally, that will push up prices and we are seeing that ... in the last two years a property you ...
EMMA LEDWABA There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before...
PINK Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
ORLANDO BLOOM Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels no...
C.S. LEWIS To bring in the people, you have to have something different. You might not come down because you sa...
DAVID FOSTER I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
RAND PAUL You look at someone like Kelly and from whatever sport you are involved you have got to admire that ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Instead of focusing on pulling something down, we will build something up for people to look at.
TUAN VU If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry a...
DON DE GRAZIA Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al...
GORE VIDAL But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men d...
AYN RAND Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the boo...
DAVID DAVIS If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find they have declined through the ye...
GEORGE GLYNOS Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C. She has the greatest passion for her job. That's who you want to play for, someone who doesn't look ...
DANIELLE KAMM Just because something is on trend doesn't mean you have to embrace it. You can look at it and a...
AERIN LAUDER I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It’s something yo...
MARIA LA SERRA If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find that they have declined through t...
GEORGE GLYNOS The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today...
NEIL PEART But have you ever seen one?....They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this ...
DARYNDA JONES Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybo...
KAYE GIBBONS ...sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely ca...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up
LAUREN OLIVER Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you h...
CHARLIE HUNNAM At drama school nobody cared what shape my nose was and if I felt down I could be someone else for t...
NIKKI SANDERSON You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happen...
JONATHAN MILLER People who look down at you, are afraid to look up.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Did you ever look down at yourself and realise that finally you had it all? Did you ever feel that e...
JODI PICOULT You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchang...
CHARLESZETTA WADDLES I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard a...
AYN RAND You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
JOHN BUNYAN At school you look to guys and respect them, certainly. But there's no time for that when you get on...
PIERRE SPIES “Nothing is really yours, because there is nothing you could ever lose. In order to lose something...
RYAN MARKS Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life ...
ANN AGUIRRE You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl...
RUTH SMELTZER If you keep thinking "you" can change someone, you could end up marrying a job you're not qualified ...
VAEESHIA RATCLIFF-DAVIS That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
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CESARE PAVESE I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd ...
GARY AYRES You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.
DAVID THEWLIS Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
BILL MCGLASHEN Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
JON KRAKAUER You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what y...
JAMES CURCIO You could look at someone from a distance, love them in your imagination, and see in them everything...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only...
THOMAS MALLON If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right fo...
MANDY HALE Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder...
VERA WANG To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look...
PAUL MURRAY I think as a player, you look at it the opposite way, too. You say, 'I wouldn't have been a part of ...
ANN STROTHER If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sometimes the guys might look to (Becker) a little bit more but that's fine because he's our go-to p...
DAVE BRAET You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...
QUEEN LATIFAH There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...
VERONICA ROTH I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince y...
MARISSA MEYER Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
WAYNE ROONEY I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be origina...
JOSH HARTNETT I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political phi...
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever real...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other...
NANCY GARDEN I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses tho...
GARY JOHNSON [One has to stay calm and] you have to be able to look at this as you're treating someone else and l...
ARON RALSTON Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
KATE MORTON “You want to think and say that you have everytning you need, but then you realize that something ...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental t...
GORDON BROWN Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
GRETA GARBO Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down...
DORIS ROBERTS You are not remembered for who you pull down, but who you lift up.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO So you have enemies? Good for you! That means you had the courage to stand up for something right, s...
PATTY RASE HOPSON I think you have to look at the totality of it as to whether or not it's a legitimate threat or whet...
JOHN MARTIN If you look at fantasy for most people, they could go to Nepal. They could do it. But for most peopl...
JAY RASULO Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees u...
TYLER JOSEPH He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON Everything you could ever wish for is just in reach. Work hard and never be afraid to ask for someth...
TERRY LANDER Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. T...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l...
B.O.B I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someon...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them bef...
JOANNE KENRICK Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?
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the man who disagr...
AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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