Awe Quotes · Page 5

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

— Ester Dean

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

— Andrew van der Bijl

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

— Pete Sampras

I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

— Mike Patton

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in…

— Wendell Berry

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the…

— Matt Chandler

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of…

— Dave Koz

The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up…

— Tulku Thondup

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering…

— Thomas Little Heath

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The…

— Carlos Castaneda

“Sometimes I worry that I'll slide back into the mindless rotisserie of work and projects that guided me in my old house...…

— Dee Williams

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because…

— Debbie Reynolds

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with…

— John Milton

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding…

— Michael Silverblatt

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors…

— Toni Morrison

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

— Les Dennis

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

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Jay Nichols

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

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

— Mark McGwire

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

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

— Joseph P. Kauffman

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

— Jordana Spiro

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

— Nelly Furtado

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

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

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

— David Sarnoff

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— A. J. Liebling

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

— Charles Simic

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

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

— Stacey Snider

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Rodney Yee

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

— Jim Lovell

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

— Joseph Campbell

“The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask. -Rick Ridgeway”

— Susan Magsamen

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

— Gail Sheehy