Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Nice

• He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Moving
  • Broken

• I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up

• I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Experience
  • College
  • Autumn

• My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Life

• I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Good
  • Age

• Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

  

  Al Lopez
  • Hate

• The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

  

  Catherine Crier
  • Hearing
  • Outcomes
  • Fairs

• I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  

  Rick Scott
  • Business
  • Person
  • Leader

• The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Author
  • Record

• Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

  

  John Crowley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Struggle

• I still remember him fondly, there in the doorway. He was absolutely the first person to show me how comfortable it is to arrive in a strange, potentially hostile environment, and discover that you have been preceded by your reputation, that you don't have to do anything to be accepted, that your name is known, that everyone knows about you, and it's the others, the strangers, who must strive to win your favor, and not you theirs.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Remember
  • Environment
  • Strange

• Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

  

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Chaos
  • Simplicity
  • Discover