Dagny-taggart Quotes

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, w...

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his ...

It seemed natural; natural to the moment’s peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from...

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He mean...

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only h...

If that’s the price of getting together, then I’ll be damned if I want to live on the same earth wit...

...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open ackn...

The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviol...

She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wante...

You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I ...

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know t...

As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a stran...

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she...

...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, s...

She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced wit...

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of ...

The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make t...

Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”...

Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there wa...

It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she fe...

Isn’t it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure?” he said to her once, quite simply....

We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those...

She knew the general doctrine on sex, held by people in one form or another, the doctrine that sex w...