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I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. — Scott Bakula

Empty words almost echo within themselves — Cecelia Ahern

You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast. — Ayn Rand

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. — Ayn Rand

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible. — Romare Bearden

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

Your ego is the strictest judge.
-Howard Roark in his speech at his trial. — Ayn Rand

. Temptation leads down a path of destruction — Kim Holden

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. — 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

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

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

And, after all, you've got to live."
"Not that way," said Roark. — Ayn Rand

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way. — Gelett Burgess

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships. — Bjork

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

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark. — Neil Peart

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors. — Gary Kemp

Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? — Ayn Rand

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. — Idries Shah

Every time you are willing to say "Yes" to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you. — Maria Nemeth

Love is listening, Sometimes overcoming obstacles,
as well as being victorious when faced with emulation. — Monica Chrisandtras Hines

She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found. — Ayn Rand

She found a dark satisfaction in pain - because that pain came from him. — Ayn Rand

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

The best is a matter of standards - and I set my own standards. — Ayn Rand

She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory. — Ayn Rand

But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark) — 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

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli

I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. — Ayn Rand

pg. 245 ...there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia. — Ken Jennings