Reverence Quotes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.