Awe Quotes · Page 7

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

— Judith Hayes

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

— Gail Sheehy

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its…

— Charles Simic

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

— A. J. Liebling

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

— Werner Herzog

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

— David Sarnoff

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

— Nelly Furtado

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that…

— George MacDonald

The Windsor monarchy is held in just awe. The whole process of criticism of the personal behaviour of the monarch is put…

— David Starkey

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think,…

— Dennis Lehane

Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork…

— Alexandra Ivy

It sounds otherworldly and mysterious, submerged under a bed of spacious texture. A place of awe where don't have answers to all…

— Brooke Waggoner

“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe…

— Ron White

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

— Rodney Yee

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

— Stacey Snider

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

“When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.”

— Jay Nichols

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

— Edwin Muir

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

— Mark Twain

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

— Jessica Chastain

As a young comedian playing the working men's clubs in the 70s, I'd been in awe of Dustin Gee.

— Les Dennis

I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.

— Jordana Spiro

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

— Mark McGwire

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

— William Shakespeare

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in…

— Aravind Adiga

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the…

— John Smith

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is…

— Richard Dawkins

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

— Immanuel Kant

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

— Gary Cole

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

— Tim Ferriss

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

— Paul Goldberger

Because you are seen on the screen, whether big or small, the people in remote places are in complete awe of you.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

— Peter Lerangis

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

— Timothy Keller