Fountain Head Quotes:

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Paris, Fountain, Fountain Head

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

- Ayn Rand

source: Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.411, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, Soul, Doe, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

topic: I Like You, Giving, Kind, Fountain Head, Gail

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

- Ayn Rand

topic: Encounters, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

- Ayn Rand

topic: People, Half, Way, Half Way, Fountainhead

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Sacrifice, Self, Self Sacrifice, Fountain Head, Screenwriters

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Sense Of Humor, Fountain Head

I am a man who does not exist for others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Doe, Fountain Head, Howard Roark

Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.

- Jonathan Edwards

source: Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1974). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”

topic: Men, Rivers, Water, Blessedness, Fountain Head

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

- Saadi

topic: Camels, Habit, Fountain, Carried Away, Fountain Head

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

- John Aubrey

source: John Aubrey (1957). “Brief lives”

topic: Fountain, Fountain Head, Harvey

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

- William James

topic: Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences, Fountain Head

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

- Gardiner Spring

topic: Water, Joy, Fountain, Fountain Head

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

topic: Jesus, Philosophy, Heart, Fountain Head