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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
— Orlando Bloom
She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.
— Ayn Rand
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
No," she said, before he could utter a word, "you can't take me home. I have a car waiting. Thank you just the same.
— Ayn Rand
...Opinion without a rational process.
— Ayn Rand
If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.
— Ayn Rand
You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.
— Ayn Rand
A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
— Ayn Rand
I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
— Ayn Rand
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"
— Ayn Rand
Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." "That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all.
— Ayn Rand
She seemed to find him suitable as an inconsequential companion for an occasional, inconsequential evening. He thought that she liked him.
— Ayn Rand
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
— Ayn Rand
To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
— Ayn Rand
He does not achieve through other men nor for other men, he achieves through and for himself alone, then offers it to others.
— Ayn Rand
It's a law of survival, isn't it? - to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.
— Ayn Rand
It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
— Ayn Rand
For people who enjoyed their own presence well enough and sought only a place where they would be left free to enjoy it.
— Ayn Rand
Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
— Ayn Rand
What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.
— Ayn Rand
The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
— Ayn Rand
She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.
— Ayn Rand
You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act ...
— Ayn Rand
I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society.
— Ayn Rand
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
— Ayn Rand
All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.
— Ayn Rand
Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.
— Ayn Rand
When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous.
— Ayn Rand
She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory.
— Ayn Rand
She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.
— Ayn Rand
She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.
— Ayn Rand
Before Ayn Rand coined the term "objectivists", we just called them "selfish assholes".
— James Rozoff
Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.
— Ayn Rand
She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.
— Ayn Rand
I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.
— Ayn Rand