Top 100 Quotes About The Fountainhead
#1. In the mid-1600s, Puritan John Gibbon said, "God alone is enough, but without him, nothing [is enough] for thy happiness."[218] Whether or not we're conscious of it, since God is the fountainhead of happiness, the search for happiness is always the search for God.
Randy Alcorn
#2. Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out.
Pearl Zhu
#3. 21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.
Narendra Modi
#4. But not only is the Shema the fountainhead and bedrock of all oneness theology, it is also the fountainhead and bedrock of all theology.
John Carroll
#5. Oh, I inherited my emotions from Calandria May, and I understand now that each human has a ruling passion, one that serves as the fountainhead from which flow all semblances of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy.
Karl Schroeder
#6. What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo May
#7. "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand
#8. The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
Vince Vaughn
#9. 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
#10. The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
Pope Leo XIII
#11. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand
#12. Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
Orlando Bloom
#13. As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The, first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance - consciousness and integration. They are the fountainhead of personal development.
Nathaniel Branden
#14. Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
Nancy Mairs
#16. The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.
John Milton
#17. A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
Ayn Rand
#18. Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
Karl Marx
#21. Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.
Bryant McGill
#22. The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
Pope Pius X
#23. We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread,
And long to feast upon Thee still:
We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead
And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#25. I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Clarence Thomas
#26. History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
Wilbur Smith
#27. Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.
Eugene Mirman
#28. She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste.
Ayn Rand
#29. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.
Ayn Rand
#30. It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
Ayn Rand
#31. 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
#32. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Ayn Rand
#33. Great men can't be ruled ... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
Ayn Rand
#34. The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself qualified to alter, advise and improve the work of any man living.
Ayn Rand
#35. 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
#36. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
Ayn Rand
#37. 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
#38. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?
Ayn Rand
#39. Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?
Ayn Rand
#40. Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." "That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all.
Ayn Rand
#41. She saw the man below looking at her, she saw the insolent hint of amusement tell her that he knew she did not want him to look at her now. She turned her head away.
Ayn Rand
#42. What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?"
"Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I'm used to that.
Ayn Rand
#43. If ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself - that will be the man who's not after your soul.
Ayn Rand
#44. I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.
Ayn Rand
#45. My real soul ... ? It's real only when it's independent ...
Ayn Rand
#46. And, after all, you've got to live."
"Not that way," said Roark.
Ayn Rand
#47. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.
Ayn Rand
#48. You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
Ayn Rand
#49. 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
#50. She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.
Ayn Rand
#51. 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
#52. She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.
Ayn Rand
#53. I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think.
Ayn Rand
#54. Every living thing is integrated. Do you know what that means? Whole, pure, complete, unbroken. Do you know what constitutes an integrating principle? A thought. The one thought, the single thought that created the thing and every part of it. The thought which no one can change or touch.
Ayn Rand
#55. 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
#56. I can do nothing halfway. Those who can, have a fissure somewhere inside. Most people have many. They lie to themselves - not to know that. I've never lied to myself.
Ayn Rand
#57. 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
#58. The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
Ayn Rand
#59. The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.
Ayn Rand
#60. I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society.
Ayn Rand
#61. The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.
Ayn Rand
#62. You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense."
"Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.
Ayn Rand
#63. Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace
#64. He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here - it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.
Ayn Rand
#65. Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
Madame De Stael
#66. 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
#67. He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility. He shrugged; he thought that he would be out of here soon and back in the simple, clean reality of his own office.
Ayn Rand
#68. 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
#69. They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.
Ayn Rand
#70. He sat looking at her. She waited to see the derisive smile, but it did not come. The smile seemed implicit in the room itself, in her standing there, halfway across that room.
Ayn Rand
#71. Roark looked at him and understood. Roark inclined his head in agreement; he could acknowledge what Cameron had just declared to him only by a quiet glance as solemn as Cameron's.
Ayn Rand
#72. The best is a matter of standards - and I set my own standards.
Ayn Rand
#73. When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous.
Ayn Rand
#74. Don't say that I'm beautiful and exquisite and like no one you've ever met before and that you're very much afraid that you're going to fall in love with me. You'll say it eventually, but let's postpone it. Apart from that, I think we'll get along very nicely.
Ayn Rand
#75. 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
#76. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
Ayn Rand
#77. A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#78. The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
Ayn Rand
#79. He was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that.
Ayn Rand
#80. Wynand's face was more than the face of a stranger: a stranger's face is an unapproached potentiality, to be opened if one makes the choice and effort; this was a face known, closed and never to be reached again.
Ayn Rand
#81. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.
Ayn Rand
#82. Roark threw his head up once, for a flash of a second, to look at Heller across the table. It was all the introduction they needed; it was like a handshake.
Ayn Rand
#83. She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances - gracious and smiling, a smile that made her face brighter and colder, like the sun on a winter day.
Ayn Rand
#84. You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast.
Ayn Rand
#85. She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.
Ayn Rand
#86. There had always been a God and a Devil - only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil - he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.
Ayn Rand
#87. Keating felt naked ... People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.
Ayn Rand
#88. The unrecognized genius - that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one - the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can't see the best - that's nothing. One can't get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don't want it?
Ayn Rand
#89. ...Opinion without a rational process.
Ayn Rand
#90. 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
#91. If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.
Ayn Rand
#92. Before Ayn Rand coined the term "objectivists", we just called them "selfish assholes".
James Rozoff
#93. 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
#94. He thought ... that man's work should be a higher step, an improvement on nature, not a degradation. He did not want to despise men; he wanted to love and admire them.
Ayn Rand
#95. If I ever want to punish myself for something terrible, if I ever want to punish myself disgustingly - I'll marry you." She added: "Consider it a promise.
Ayn Rand
#96. I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.
Ayn Rand
#97. 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
#98. She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.
Ayn Rand
#99. Roark stood before them as each man stands in the innocence of his own mind. But Roark stood like that before a hostile crowd - and they knew suddenly that no hatred was possible to him.
Ayn Rand
#100. She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.
Ayn Rand
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