Top 1200 Superhuman Powers Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.

If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

The biggest problem with the national sports awards in India is that the selection committee which the government appoints every year does not have any real powers.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.

One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this weird shamanistic kind of blood magic side to them.

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a being but there is no division.

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.