Awe Quotes · Page 8

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

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

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

I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.

— Joe Buck

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this…

— Anagarika Govinda

It's humbling to see kids look up to me or be in awe or see me as a hero or some type…

— Danny Green

Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them…

— Chelsea Handler

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief…

— Frank Herbert

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of…

— Diana Nyad

“It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as…

— Sharon Salzberg

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what…

— Mirabel Osler

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

— Kathleen Raine

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

— Laurence J. Peter

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

— Ken Livingstone

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

— E. W. Howe

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

— Arthur Symons

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

— Susan Griffin

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

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Judith Hayes

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

— Susan Magsamen

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 transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

— Ben Lerner

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder…

— Harold S. Kushner

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

— Paul Cezanne

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

— Thaddeus Golas

I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.

— Kameron Hurley

I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck".

— Mike Ruiz

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

— Edward Abbey

You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player.

— Luke Appling

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

— FKA twigs

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

— John Milton