Quotes About Limitations

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

The reality is that the United States lacks a centralized gun registry, which seriously limits the ability of law enforcement to prevent and investigate crimes in a country with 4.5 percent of the world's population but 42 percent of the civilian-owned guns.

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn't do it anymore. There wasn't much time.

Was this the epiphany of adult life, that it actually wasn't exciting and vast in possibilities, but was in fact as enclosed and proscribed as childhood?

Good girls could go far, but they could rarely go the distance.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's

My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

Ningú no neix per viure entre reixes.

En el fondo todos somos esclavos de algo. Nadie escapa a la esclavitud. Tanto los de aquí adentro (en la carcel) como los de fuera. Y cuando la veía algo mustia: - No irás a decirme que tú cuando te creías libre no te sentías esclava de tu trabajo, de tus miedos, de tus pasiones e incluso de tus ganas de hacer las cosas con la mayor perfección. Pero Lucía no acertaba a comprenderla.

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

We are all weak men. I am weak in ways that you are not. You are weak in a way that I am not. These are the thorns in the flesh that keep us both from becoming puffed up.

and we know who shouldn't be fasting in the first place4109 (such as those with advanced liver or kidney failure, porphyria, or uncontrolled hyperthyroidism, and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding).

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."

I'm so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I'm not related to Tom Cruise.