Quotes About Limitations

A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.

That the social life of human beings is subject to definite limitations; that it is governed by a set of laws that are comparable with those of Nature; these are notions that are unknown to the etatist. For the etatist, everything is a question of Macht - power, force, might. And his conception of Macht is crudely materialistic.

The weapons a writer has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example.I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

But it is exactly because I was a writer that I could never do it. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

I always get the funniest expressions from colleagues when I tell them that the best scientists understand that 2–3 percent of whatever it is they are studying is simply not quantifiable—it may be magic or aliens or random variance, none of which can be truly ruled out. If we are to be honest as scientists Ã¢â'¬Â¦ we must admit there may be a few things that we are not supposed to know. I

The basic test of freedom is not in what we are free to do but rather in what we are free not to do!

The Bible suggests that Adam was not satisfied with his own being. He wanted to be more than he was. He wanted to be more than human. He failed to accept his essential limitations. He lost his healthy shame. The Bible suggests that the origin of human bondage (original sin) is the desire to be other than who we are . . . to be more than human. In his toxic shame (pride), Adam wanted a false self. The false self led to his destruction.

The idea that we can systematically understand certain aspects of the world and make predictions based on what we've learned, while appreciating and categorizing the extent and limitations of what we know, plays a big role in how we think.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

by talking other people out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones

las limitaciones reales y permanentes se originan en nuestras mentes, no en nuestros cuerpos. -ROGER CRAWFORD

If you obey all the rules… you will miss all the fun.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they just don't have the capacity to love you back.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Computers are stupid.

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.