Fountainhead Quotes - Page 4

• This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Feelings, World, Wonder

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.751, Penguin

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• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Live Life, Teaching

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• Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Liberty, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin

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• One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

  Ayn Rand

  Sense Of Humor, Fountain Head, Loses

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.546, Penguin

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• Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

  Ayn Rand

  Political, Creation, Acts Of Charity

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.103, Penguin

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• The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

  John Milton

  Self, Issues, May

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• You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Past, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.61, Penguin

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• For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Goodness

  "Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection".

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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

  Wilbur Smith

  Rivers, Today, Ends

  Wilbur Smith (2008). “Rage”, p.238, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Country, Past, Europe

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Soul, Taste

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• 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

  Thinking, Evil, Liberty

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.89, TAN Books

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• Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

  Nancy Mairs

  Two, Fiction, Atlas

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

  Susan Forward

  Criticism

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• 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

  Education, Reality, India

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• Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Hands, Giving

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• It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

  Saul Alinsky

  Facts, Rules For Radicals, Power And Fear

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.99, Vintage

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• 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

  Hero, Writing, Thinking

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Howard Roark, Born

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• Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Mathematics, Integers

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• The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reality, Blood, Expression

  Pope John Paul II (2000). “Celebrate the Third Millennium: Facing the Future with Hope”, G K Hall & Company

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• 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

  Dream, Stupid, People

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• The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.

  Polybius

  Design, Political, Principles

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