Awe Quotes

565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe — John Steinbeck
You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and… — Susan Orlean
Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing… — Peter Lik
The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. — R C Sproul
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live… — Victor J. Stenger
You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player. — Luke Appling
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,… — Penelope Hobhouse
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of… — L. Ron Hubbard
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by… — Jason Silva
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is… — Ravi Zacharias
At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all… — Jane Wagner
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time, when you find yourself breathing and not crazy,… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let… — Bob Dylan
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe. — Julian Jaynes
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than… — Diane Paulus
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer… — Stephen Batchelor
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage… — Tina Fey
Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of. — Christoph Waltz
Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it… — Michelle Obama
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or… — Christopher Hitchens
I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins.… — Katharine Weber
Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and… — Piers Morgan
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been… — David Douglass
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their… — Knut Hamsun
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity… — Heber Doust Curtis

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