"If you're feeling helpless, help someone."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Badass Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Helping Quotes

“There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.”
“[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.”
“I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.”
“Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.”
“The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.92, Penguin
“I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.”
“The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.”
“Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.”

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