Quotes about Introspection
But I don't think of you.
— Ayn Rand
But I don't think of you.
— Ayn Rand
He felt as if there was something—deep in his brain, behind everything he thought and everything he was—which he did not know, but she knew, and he wished he did, and wondered whether he could ever know it, and should he, if he could, and why he wished it.
— Ayn Rand
Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.
— Ayn Rand
Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not emptiness, but silence, not despair, but immobility, as if nothing within her were destroyed, but everything stood still.
— Ayn Rand
Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not emptiness, but silence, not despair, but immobility, as if nothing within her were destroyed, but everything stood still.
— Ayn Rand
She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.
— Ayn Rand
Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." "But I don't think of you." Toohey
— Ayn Rand
Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
— Barack Obama
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
— Barack Obama
Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.
— Barack Obama
Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.
— Barack Obama