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Quote Left There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. Quote Right
Quote Left Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack. Quote Right
Quote Left I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. Quote Right
Quote Left We are awed by their sacrifice and their bravery, and we want them and their families to know that they have the profound respect and gratitude of every American, Quote Right
Quote Left Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Awed

Quote Left “I am flawed, scarred and a beautiful mess.” ? Lisa C. Miller, Nightly Inspirations from the Heart of God Quote Right
Quote Left Only a broken heart will ever truly love the light and dark sides of a flawed heart. (yin yang) Quote Right
Quote Left The chauvinistic mind has Napoleonic roots, where commitment to flawed ideals lacks endurance and truth. With ' Fake News ' and the ' Big Lie ' . . . reality is challenged once again from blind leadership and power. Quote Right
Quote Left if and when Histories are written through the lenses of Liars, It cannot be History, It would be bias, flawed and faulted. True history must provide all sides of truth. Quote Right
Quote Left Who, if I objected, would hear me among the angelic orders? For if the least One pressed me intimately against its breast, I would be lost in its infinite Immensity! Because beauty, which we mortals can barely endure, is the beginning of terror; we stand awed when it benignly declines to annihilate us. Every Angel is terrifying! ('Rilke’s First Elegy' by Rainer Maria Rilke, loose translation by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left Trapped in a burning house Wired with fear and self doubt, I pretended one day I'd be saved. But I'd rather jump and fall, and live crippled and flawed, than to melt to a cowardly grave. So I Jumped!% Quote Right
Quote Left "One's recollection means nothing, if what they were taught, was flawed." Quote Right
Quote Left Perfection, it should never be sought after, unless your seeking to find the flawed truth. Quote Right
Quote Left Love is flawed and will not be perfect Quote Right
Quote Left "When Bibles were outlawed, we could not read them fast enough." Quote Right
Quote Left I'm not perfect, I'm flawed. If you don't like that, get lost. Quote Right
Quote Left People like F. Scott Fitzgerald have made the American Dream look like a flawed concept: something unattainable or nonexistent altogether. Quote Right
Quote Left You're perfect. Just with small imperfections. You're flawless, but perfectly flawed. Quote Right
Quote Left Beauty is flawed. It has to be. There's nothing worse than a perfect pebble. Quote Right
Quote Left Words do not always flow for me. Sometimes they have to be clawed out of my head, beaten to within an inch of their lives and glued against their will onto paper. Quote Right

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