Awed Quotes
48 quotes by 44 authors
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry…
— Annie Dillard
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He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how…
— Amanda Peet
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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that…
— Margaret Sanger
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I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is…
— Richard Dawkins
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I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in disbelief. Fang dropped…
— James Patterson
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Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
— Annie Dillard
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those…
— Ellen Goodman
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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and…
— H P Lovecraft
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For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
— Virginia Woolf
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The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
— Neil Gaiman
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I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed…
— Mary Balogh
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A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek,…
— Frank Herbert
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Who wants to kill you?†the guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. “There’s nobody there,†the girlfriend…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed…
— Margaret Mitchell
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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
— J I Packer
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What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would…
— Anthony Marra
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Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every…
— Sylvia Day
Who Wrote These Awed Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 48 Awed Quotes, led by these top contributors: