Quotes About Limitations

If wishes were wings, sheep would fly.

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

I was never much good at helping people with their problems." And worse with my own, he thought.

You cannot soothe everyone.

In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for...Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people's impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations.

Entre más seguridad busques, menos libertad tendrás, por eso todas las prisiones tienen celdas de máxima seguridad.

True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we need.

Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben.

All the knowledge that has led our species from wearing animal skins to people flying, complete with proofs, would fill a handful of reference books, but a bookcase the size of the earth would not suffice to hold all the rest, quite apart from the vast discussions that are conducted not with the pen but with the sword and chains.

Utopiile se aseam?n? cu posibilit??ile; din faptul c? o posibilitate nu este o realitate nu se deduce nimic altceva decât c? circumstanÈ›ele în care se afl? împiedic? punerea ei în aplicare, c?ci altminteri ea ar fi doar o imposibilitate; îns? dac? este eliberat? de constrângeri È™i i se permite s? se dezvolte, se creeaz? utopia.

The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's to the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind.

Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way." "All right," I said.

You can't make bricks without straw, and most of the time all the straw you got is secondhand straw from the cowpen.

He never understood that the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

but the best deals are closed to most people, even though they have money.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

Pigs MAY whistle, but they've poor mouths for it

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone.

I sent a simple smiley face, because my phone did not have a smiley face that was wrapping her hands around her own throat and beating her head against a wall.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.