To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
I'm still in awe of Madhuri. I've grown up watching her movies, and to see her in a film like 'Dedh Ishqiya,'… — Huma Qureshi Copy Share Image
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like Kamal Haasan's daring choice of roles. When I was in school and college, I modelled myself on him. I was… — Vikram Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“ Singing at the Edge of Need by Susan Laughter Meyers (fragment) Three things I turned my back to: light, the past,… — Susan Laughter Meyers Copy Share Image
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing… — John Garrett Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of… — James Tour Copy Share Image
I believe [in God], and then there are times when I don't, because the nature of the universe tells me that I'm… — Tom Fontana Copy Share Image
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness,… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image