Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Brandy Norwood

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Author unknown

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Donald Trump

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Aleister Crowley

Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Don DeLillo

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Anna Kendrick

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.