Nikola Tesla Quotes

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Nikola Tesla

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• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Stars

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Gift

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Done
  • Why
  • Today

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Company

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Mind
  • American
  • English

• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Problem
  • Eat
  • Too Much

• I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Want

• The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• We're able to tell the truth in a way that you can't tell with real people. I think because it's animated, you um, you have enough of a barrier to say things that people might find offensive or be sort of appalled, or the censors would go 'no way', you know, because it's animated.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Emotion