Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can.
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
My heart holds the world in tender awe.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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.
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
Respect is not fear and awe; it. . . [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
Silence 'tis awe decrees.
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.
Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.