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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. — David Sarnoff

Have you ever wanted More? Not more stuff . . . or success . . . or fame . . . but more intimacy, more connection, more mystery, more awe — Mariah McKenzie

Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee. — Ann Voskamp

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? — William O. Douglas

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery. — Erica Goros

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him. — Francis Chan

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul. — Robert E. Howard

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

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss. — Po Bronson

I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. — Deborah Sampson

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

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done. — Robin Williams

I am still in shock and awe at being fired. — Peter Arnett

As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings. — S. Kelley Harrell

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic. — Stephen King

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. — John Tillotson

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable. — Keith Hollihan

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

Working in Korea with the talent and staff there was very eye-opening. I was in awe of everyone's talent, passion, and love for the process. — Brian Tee

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist. — Michelle Rodriguez

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose. — Gerald Schroeder

In the heart of the slaughterhouse
always
enough room to nourish the awe. — John Nichols

I'd have to be dead in my grave before I stopped fighting for you, Madeline. Even then, I'd move six feet of earth to find a way.
-Logan — Tessa Dare

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

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

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe. — Celia Thaxter

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence. — Jonathan Haidt

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. — George Eliot

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing. — David S.E. Zapanta

Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul. — Kilroy J. Oldster

She was in awe of him, impressed by his lack of fear, smitten with his bee-geekery. — Ruthie Knox

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

I am more lost in wonder than ever. — John Huston

I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe. — Horton Foote

I took a deep breath and sighed in awe. My proverbial penis had just gotten a serious chubby. — J.L. McCoy

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting. — Terry Tempest Williams

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. — Alex Kapranos

My heart holds the world in tender awe. — Julia Cameron

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle. — Jill Abramson

Life hath more awe than death. — Philip James Bailey

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis

My whole philosophy is a feeling about life. A feeling of awe. — Marty Rubin

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish. — Peter Lerangis

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move. — Matthew Gray Gubler

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe. — E. M. Forster

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. — Albert Einstein

You can't let any team awe you. — Luke Appling

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe. — Katherine Boo

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

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency. — Rands

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. — Laozi

Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe. — Pat Rodegast

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe. — Mark McGwire

It was nothing compared to his awe as he watched her de-feather the dead fowl like a trained expert, — Marissa Meyer

Rather than respond to his incalculable God-ness with our slide rules and flowcharts, we would do better to worship him with reverence and awe. — Matt Chandler

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. — Mark Twain

What science shows us about the evolution of our universe and ourselves is as awe-inspiring as the accounts in Genesis or the Kabbalah. — Daniel C. Matt

Awe is the best drug in the world — Jason Silva

Be alive to the moment, that's all you can do. — Marty Rubin

CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools. — Ben Jonson

If I have any kids, I'm going to dress them in all black and if someone asks, 'awe, is it a boy or a girl?' I say 'it's a punk. — Unknown

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of. — Christoph Waltz

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe. — Jason Silva

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. — Richard Dawkins

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. — Marcia Wallace

I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids. — Lindsey Vonn

Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for — David Bowie

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe. — Kevin DeYoung

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. — Conor Oberst

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell

Parenthood is an equal share of awe and ah, crap.
-Galene — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Killing is nothing to be in awe of, it's like taking a piss, you do it only when you have to. — T.A. Uner

And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will
be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. — David Levithan

Death is the road to awe. — Fernando Hernandez

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win. — Sophia Lee

The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe. — Nancy Beach

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth. — Alistair Begg

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. — R.C. Sproul

I know you deserve better than me. You think I don't know that? But if there was any woman made for me ... it's you. — Jamie McGuire

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason. — Miguel De Cervantes

You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe. — Laini Taylor

Nor think thou with wind Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. — John Milton

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The match I struck shall not run dead
You're my first inhale, my last cigarette. — Mie Hansson

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

I am in awe of Ruth Draper. — Annette Bening

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. — Khalil Gibran

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

Keep it real and stay in awe. — Bob Rich

Was this what he wanted? Some sort of domesticated bliss? Yes. He decided. He wasted it all. The whole gift wrapped Christmas Catalog Family Package. — Michele De Winton

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly. — Phil Cousineau

He was exactly my height, which surprised me; my awe of him had made him seem taller. — Rachel Hartman

I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir

Drunk am I with love and awe;
'Twas ever thus with veritable seers
Too drunk with joy to tell us what they saw. — Omar Khayyam