Wynand's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Ayn Rand

#3. You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.

Ayn Rand

#4. It was a strange glance; she had noticed it before; a glance of simple worship. And it made her realize that there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.

Ayn Rand

#5. Men differ in their virtues, if any," said Gail Wynand, explaining his policy, "but they are alike in their vices.

Ayn Rand

#6. In life, toughness and roughness go together.

Auliq Ice

#7. If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.

Ayn Rand

#8. No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Ayn Rand

#9. He telephoned half an hour ago. Mr. Gail Wynand.

Ayn Rand

#10. 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

#11. Wynand asked: "Howard, have you ever been in love?" Roark turned to look straight at him and answer quietly: "I still am." "But when you walk through a building, what you feel is greater than that?" "Much greater, Gail.

Ayn Rand

#12. It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life.

Margaret Neylon

#14. This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.

Kim Edwards

#15. Q. Why is it so difficult to control attention? A. Lack of habit. We are too accustomed to letting things happen. When we want to control attention or something else, we find it difficult, just as physical work is difficult if we are not accustomed to it.

P.D. Ouspensky

#16. As he slew the innocent victim, he trembled at the thought that his sin must shed the blood of the spotless Lamb of God.

Ellen G. White

#17. You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

Victoria Moran

#18. 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

#19. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?

Ayn Rand

#20. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.

Holly Schindler

#21. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Ayn Rand