Awe Quotes

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Champion
  • Sure
  • Awe

• I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Start
  • Hard

• I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Camera
  • Recognize
  • Awe

• If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Wrong

• Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Respect
  • Self
  • Reverence

• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Kind
  • Longing
  • Envious

• Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Awe
  • Struck

• The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Church
  • Complain

• Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Nature
  • Criticize
  • Awe

• Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

  

  Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North
  • God
  • Love
  • Inability

• Being in nature actually evokes awe in people. And it's a chemical reaction.

  

  Caroline Adams Miller
  • People
  • Nature
  • Chemical

• I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

  

  William Shatner
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Spine

• When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.

  

  Ang Lee
  • God
  • Fear
  • Firsts

• The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

  

  Anagarika Govinda
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Mystery

• 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
  • Benefit
  • Met
  • I Was

• Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Sun
  • Birth
  • Becoming

• Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Light
  • Vision
  • Information

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

  

  William Shenstone
  • Reason
  • Approach
  • Chests

• He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Different
  • Money
  • Rich

• Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • May
  • Awe
  • Invocation

• Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Strong
  • Conscience
  • Coward

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Awe

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