Ayn Rand Quotes

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

It's up to history to judge.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Your time is up. Go now. Don't wait until there has been more death and destruction

… a walking day of judgment

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.

We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

God warns before he wounds.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

A fate is not a punishment.