Quotes of: Rand Keyword

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Samuel Alexander

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Aaron Allston

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.

Esther Duflo

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Thorstein Veblen

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Corita Kent

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Corita Kent

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Clarence Thomas

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

James Buchan

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Erik Brynjolfsson

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I think Americans have big hearts.

Gene Sperling

I think writers are very anxious.

Helen Garner

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Jean Monnet

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Jeffrey Sachs

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Joseph Stiglitz

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

Daniel Keys Moran

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

Jean Drèze

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

Edward Bond

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

Emily Greene Balch