Light Quotes
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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Max von Laue
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When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
Banana Yoshimoto
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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
Alfred Kastler
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Margaret Atwood
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
The Weeknd
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The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
Olaf Stapledon
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Play a little light catch and only some short sprints for me. Then on the day-of, it's just getting loosened up and ready to go out there and pitch.
Jacob deGrom
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When I feel the heat, I see the light.
Everett Dirksen
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You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
Archilochus
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She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
Gabrielle Roy
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I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.
Ann Dowd
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Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light.” Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.
Nalini Singh
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The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Baden Powell
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
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Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Marilyn Ferguson
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key
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I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.
Valentina Tereshkova
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The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
Joel Silver
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A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm.One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.
Margaret Fuller
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Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.
Ian Holm
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I don't have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I'm training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.
Anderson Silva
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The corporations have already planted their own bombs. All we have to do is light the fuses.
Neal Stephenson
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Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. . . . Your creativity is not a bad boyfriend. It is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug.
Amy Poehler
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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Alan Ayckbourn