Superhuman Quotes

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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of… — Orlando Bloom
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your… — Eckhart Tolle
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity… — Woodrow Wilson
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman… — Maurice Maeterlinck
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not… — John Keats
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige… — Alec Douglas-Home
People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and… — Robert Pattinson
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact,… — James Dean
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a… — Max Horkheimer
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,… — Kenzo Tange
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism… — Bill Maher
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert
The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A… — Ulysses S. Grant
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom. — Gaston Bachelard
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. — Ernest Shackleton
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.… — Rudolf Arnheim

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