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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. -- Laurie Anderson
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
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
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. -- Daniel Kleppner
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. -- Bryant McGill
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. -- Winston Churchill
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. -- Eric Gibbons
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. -- Don DeLillo
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him. -- Annie Lennox
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion. -- Christopher Hitchens
We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders, and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it. -- Michael Barone
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene Spafford
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. -- Winston Churchill
Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring. -- Aaron Lazar
If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law? -- Charles Spurgeon
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. -- Jim Lovell
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies. -- John Ralston Saul
I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me. -- Sue Thoele
How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better. -- Jodie Foster
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream. -- Dorothy Allison
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. -- Criss Jami
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings. -- Carl Jung
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie. -- Stacey Snider
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. -- Adam Schiff
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities. -- Stephen Kinzer
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
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. -- Herbert Simon
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. -- Criss Angel
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me. -- Nicolas Cage
The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling. -- Vivienne Westwood
Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring. -- Blake Shelton
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring. -- Lois Lowry
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire. -- Charlie Pierce
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring. -- Diana Nyad
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. -- Gretchen Rubin
God is awe-inspiring. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Awe-inspiring God.Amazing God.Awesome God.Almighty God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. -- Bryant McGill
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge. -- Tim Ferriss
The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for. -- Ben Lerner
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. -- Mark Twain
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment. -- Judith Hayes
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. -- Jim Lovell
Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss. -- Po Bronson
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." -- Simon Boswell
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring -- Nelly Furtado
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
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
Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds. -- Christopher Hitchens
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God. -- Eben Alexander
I hate the whole Ã¼bermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing. -- David Brin

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