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Awe and respect are two different things. -- Oliver Reed
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. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. -- Alex Trebek
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. -- David Sarnoff
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. -- John Milton
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. -- Thomas Aquinas
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. -- Thomas Hobbes
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. -- Isaac Barrow
Awesome God.Awe-inspired God.Amazing God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence. -- Jonathan Haidt
Awe is what moves us forward. -- Joseph Campbell
Awesome is loud but awe is quiet. -- Kevin McCloud
Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ... -- Cynthia Ozick
Awe is the best drug in the world -- Jason Silva
Awe-inspiring God.Amazing God.Awesome God.Almighty God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes. -- Rumi
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship. -- J.D. Greear
Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education. -- Matthew Fox
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. -- Joseph Campbell
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. -- Albert Einstein
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. -- Charles Simic
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. -- William Dean Howells
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
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
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. -- Abraham Maslow
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
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. -- Britney Spears
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Maria Monk
Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel. -- Persis Khambatta
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. -- A. E. Hotchner
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!" - The Narrator." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? -- Khalil Gibran
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 ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. -- Richard P. Feynman
It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now. -- Giovanna Cau
I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person. -- Monica Lewinsky
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.' -- Dolly Parton
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -- Albert Einstein
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
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'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. -- Jason Silva
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. -- Thomas Paine
I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience. -- Robert Taylor
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. -- Jane Goodall
I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. -- Ali MacGraw
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe. -- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression. -- Olivia Wilde
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. -- Idina Menzel
When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed! -- Joyce Meyer
As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day. -- Orlando Bloom
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. -- Bono
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. -- David Bowie
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet. -- Les Dawson
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.' -- Mike Vogel
God is awe-spirit. -- Lailah Gfty Akita
God is awe-inspiring. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Silence 'tis awe decrees. -- Robert Browning
The awe of God is wisdom. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Death is the road to awe. -- Fernando Hernandez
Life hath more awe than death. -- Philip James Bailey
Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of. -- Christoph Waltz
I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't let any team awe you. -- Luke Appling
I stand in awe of my body. -- Henry David Thoreau
Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it. -- Ina May Gaskin
My heart holds the world in tender awe. -- Julia Cameron
Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality. -- Timothy Keller
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. -- Daniel Kleppner
I am still in shock and awe at being fired, -- Peter Arnett
She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe. -- Patrick Carman
I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck". -- Mike Ruiz
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. -- L. Frank Baum
Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them. -- Fred Willard
The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe. -- Edward S. Walker, Jr.
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. -- Laozi
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time. -- Friedrich Schiller
I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. -- Deborah Sampson
I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me. -- Shirley MacLaine
I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. -- Brianna Brown
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them. -- Yoko Ono
People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
I was in awe every time I walked on to the field -- Ryne Sandberg
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. -- Andrew Marvell
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. -- Llewelyn Powys
I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work. -- Emily Dickinson
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... -- Immanuel Kant
Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe -- Lahiri Mahasaya
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. -- Bryant McGill
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. -- Bryant McGill
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. -- Douglas Adams
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. -- Charles Davenport
Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish. -- Peter Lerangis
The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. -- R. C. Sproul
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. -- Benjamin Carson
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. -- William Shatner
You are one brave woman, he whispers, I am in awe of you. -- E. L. James
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. -- Karl Rahner
I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe! -- Marko Djurdjevic
The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for. -- Ben Lerner
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge. -- Tim Ferriss
I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing. -- FKA twigs
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie. -- Stacey Snider
A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind; my sacred-duty is the writing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God. -- Albert Einstein
I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her. -- Bruno Mars
The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe. -- Etsko Schuitema
I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being. -- Francis Chan
I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent. -- Julia Quinn
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... -- Thomas Paine
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. -- Winston Churchill
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. -- John Tillotson
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe. -- Philip Massinger
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius

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