Dante Alighieri Quotes

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

Dante Alighieri

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Door

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Light
  • Honor

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Just
  • Point
  • Almost

• At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Will
  • Point
  • Arm

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Light
  • Elite

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Light
  • Change
  • Wish

• When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Study
  • Travel
  • Year

• We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Character
  • Happens

• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Serious
  • Forget
  • Will

• The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Light
  • Point
  • Blazing