"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."

-- Ayn Rand

#Philosophy Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Longing Quotes

“Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”
“Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.”
“The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.”

Source : Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”
“I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.”
“There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in an earlier incarnation and which has been sort of the mainstream of economic theories since Adam Smith and David Ricardo. There are all sorts of contractual relations between firms and individuals which do not conform to the simple price theory - profit-sharing schemes and so forth - and the explanation for these suddenly became clear. We now understand why these emerged and that they are based on differences in information in the economy.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.”
“If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.”
“I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.”

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