Awe Quotes

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

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

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

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

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

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 than at any other time.

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

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

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

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

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

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

I was in awe every time I walked on to the field

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

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

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.