Quotes about Connection

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

He said it without greeting, as if they had parted the day before. Because it took her a moment to regain the art of breathing, she realized for the first time how much that voice meant to her.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.

All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes—which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification -which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.

There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

What matters is how well we have loved.