Awe Quotes - Page 37

• My heart holds the world in tender awe.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, World, My Heart

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.15, Penguin

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Great Things, Remove, Familiarity

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Giving, Water

  "Vonnegut at 80" by David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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

  Kevin DeYoung

  Missing, May, Deserving

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2015

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• Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

  Saint Augustine

  Depth, Looks, Littles

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• When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

  Steve Martin

  Being Yourself, Distance, Party

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• When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Mirrors, Law, Awe And Wonder

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

  Kevin McCloud

  Quiet, Loud

  Kevin McCloud (2011). “Kevin McCloud’s Principles of Home: Making a Place to Live”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.

  Mark Buehrle

  Baseball, Team, Kids

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• Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

  Rick Yancey

  Art, Way, Never Forget

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• The awe of God is wisdom.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

  Po Bronson

  Bliss, Awe Inspiring, Has Beens

  Po Bronson (2005). “Why Do I Love These People?: The Families We Come from and the Families We Form”

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• I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder or Chris Nolan, it's a privilege to do this and I've never lost the awe, the awe factor of just going in and watching peoples reactions to what you've spent, in a lot of cases, years working on. That's a good way to put it, I love what I do and it's a privilege to do it.

  Thomas Tull

  Years, People, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

  Simon Critchley

  Order, Political, Citizens

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• 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

  Discovery, World, Physics

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• 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

  Kids, Remember, Inspired

  "Lindsey Vonn On Olympic Gold". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Years, Victory, Germany

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