Quotes About Rand

Ideologically, there are no major differences between the two Pauls, and there are stylistic similarities too; like his dad, Rand hardly minds being the lone 'no' vote in a sea of 'yes' votes. But unlike his dad, Rand seems to pick his spots with at least one eye on the bigger picture of politics.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

What I am suggesting, after all, is no more than Major Batjuschin suggested to Captain Redl in 1902." This brought a smile from Rand. "You mean Captain Redl, the archtraitor?

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

Rand sent us away to search for an enemy," he bellowed. "We return to him having found allies. Onward, to the Last Battle!" Only

Avendesora," Moiraine murmured, resting her hand on a trefoil leaf in the stonework. Rand scanned the carving; that was the only leaf of its kind he could find. "The leaf of the Tree of Life is the key," the Aes Sedai said, and the leaf came away in her hand.

Now, draw on the Power, if you can, but do nothing with it. Simply hold it. Use this, if you must." She did not have to bend far to touch Callandor. Rand moved the sword from under her hand. "Simply hold it, you say." He sounded about to laugh out loud. "Very well.

We'll talk about it," she murmured, the bond filling with stubborn resolve. The most dire words a woman can say short of "I'm going to kill you," Rand thought.

Perrin murmured, "Sung wood, my left foot. Those Aiel are searching for He Who Comes With the Dawn." And Mat added dryly, "They're looking for you, Rand.

He kept up a constant chatter as they hunted through the packed streets. Rand made an effort to listen, and even to say something now and then, but it was an effort. He was not tired; he did not want to sleep. He just felt as if he were drifting.

across hills against the River Alguenya, and Rand's first sight of it came from the hills to the north, by the light of the midday sun. Elricain Tavolin and the fifty Cairhienin soldiers still seemed

Don't trust. Trust is death. Kill him. Kill them all. Oh, to die and be done, done with it all, sleep without dreams, dreams of Ilyena, forgive me, Ilyena, no forgiveness, only death, deserve to die. . . . Rand

Rand threw open the door to the kitchens, and there they were. Moiraine rested her serene eyes on him, unsurprised.

The only way to combat falling into the opinion trap is to follow Rand's lead: think before you answer—if you even answer.

antagonists in Rand's novels do not live by reason ... mediocrities who cannot think for themselves and conformists who cannot be bothered to.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence...

writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.