Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy."
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Sanctuary
79 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hugo Black
Justice
"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press"
Kobe Bryant
Professional Basketball Player
"Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat."
Lady Gaga
Singer, Actress
"I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life."
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"The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary."
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"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries."
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"God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous."
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"Silence is the sanctuary of prudence."
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"Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?"
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"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!"
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"To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God."
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"I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept."
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"Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project."
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"I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have."
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