#awe

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ↗

— Edward Young

#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious

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-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#awesome responsibility #build #level #maintain #nfl

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#becoming #dreamed #ever #general #i

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#before #capable #come #decades #drawer

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. ↗

— William Greider

#arsenal #awesome #death #founded #killing

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#because #develops #ever #going #good

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#awe #certain #him #i #i think

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#book #going #happen #i #just

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends