Quotes of: Rand Keyword

En nuestra existencia hay una única coincidencia que nos une y, por un momento, nuestros corazones laten como si fueran uno.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

Carnival: A Novel

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

The Goal

Kita ini biar hidup dua belas kali di dunia, tidak bisa kumpulkan duit buat beli barang-barang yang terdapat dalam hanya satu kamar orang-orang kota.

Gadis Pantai

Not all developing countries are the same.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Jadi apanya yang harus dikenal, kan orang dikenal karena karyanya, ratusan juta orang di atas bumi ini tidak berkarya yang membikin mereka dikenal, maka tidak dikenal.

Bumi Manusia

Kasihan hanya perasaan orang berkemauan baik yang tidak mampu berbuat. Kasihan hanya satu kemewahan, atau satu kelemahan. Yang terpuji memang dia yang mampu melakukan kemauan baiknya.

Bumi Manusia

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Beware of Love in Technicolor

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Christian Louboutin

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Benjamin Tucker

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Charles Babbage

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Caleb Carr

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Dawn French

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care...

Joseph Butler

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Lars Peter Hansen

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Hussein Chalayan