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Quotes About Limitations

in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations
~ Richard Yates
Why not let well enough alone? As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of women?
~ Richard Yates
You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.
~ Richelle Mead
She could've done the extraordinary. I couldn't even handle the ordinary.
~ Richelle Mead
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past.
~ Rick Warren
You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.
~ Rob Bell
would consider it the height of intellectual laziness and mental incompetence to invoke the word God to cover the limitations of my imagination and vocabulary. Instead, I will conclude with the wise words of Aleister Crowley. When asked to define the Tao he said, The result of subtracting the universe from itself.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.
~ Robert Cormier
In knowing yourself, you accept your limits. You are simply one person among many in the world, and not naturally superior to anyone.
~ Robert Greene
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all. Don't ever refer to it again, please.
~ Kenneth Grahame
The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society.
~ Kenneth Minogue
Tr? con Ä'âu ph?i nh?ng quy?n t?p tô màu. Anh không th? bôi ??y nó b?ng nh?ng màu anh ưa thích
~ Khaled Hosseini
the name for a certain kind of fiscal decapitation is called taking a haircut, which clarifies just how minor and even trivial are most of the financial limitations on wealth that get considered in the neoliberal hegemony.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Alas, I fear that floral arrangement and playing the harpsichord are forever out of my grasp. As you can imagine, the knowledge of my deficiencies is crushing
~ Kresley Cole
There comes a time, when you have to realize that you're not responsible for the whole world.
~ Kristen D. Randle
Power with conditions was no power
~ Kuldip Nayar
Zixi made no reply, but she agreed with the alligator, who called after her sleepily, Isn't it fortunate we cannot have everything we are stupid enough to wish for?
~ L Frank Baum
I am on-ly a ma-chine," said Tiktok. "I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.
~ L. Frank Baum
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
~ Zoroaster
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
~ Joss Whedon
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
~ Lisa Alther
Taal verwoordt slechts de onmogelijkheid om je uit te drukken.
~ Yasmina Reza