Awe Quotes
565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors
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I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all…
— Jane Jacobs
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In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
— Aravind Adiga
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in…
— Candice Swanepoel
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What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.
— Stacey Snider
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Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping…
— Edward T Welch
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This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own…
— Bruce Barcott
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring,…
— Gary Zukav
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There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.
— Paul Pearsall
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Awe is the best drug in the world
— Jason Silva
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
— William James
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We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
— Harold S. Kushner
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I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is…
— Percival Lowell
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Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
— E. W. Howe
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When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the…
— Winston Churchill
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But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the…
— George MacDonald
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In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
— Timothy Keller
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I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use…
— Andrew Dominik
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by…
— John Updike
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I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it,…
— Henry Beston
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In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive,…
— Rajneesh
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The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
— Matt Chandler
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