Quotes About Limitations

She was appallingly narrow, but her consciousness of wider things gave to her narrowness a pathetic charm.

Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She never repined at getting the worst of both worlds; she regarded it as the due punishment of her stupidity.

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.

And so- what can we get get done in those few hours and days and weeks and years? We are limited by time and by areas of talent and ability. So our creativity is not on God's level at all. His creativity is unlimited and infinite. Nevertheless we have been created in His image, so we can be, and are made to be, creative.

The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

Over these things I could not see; These were the things that bounded me; And I could touch them with my hand, Almost, I thought, from where I stand. And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all.

El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no es grave, pero...". ¿Se da cuenta? Una palabra de mierda que sirve para dinamitar lo que era,o lo que podría haber sido, pero no es.

The best of jazz for all its virtues cannot escape the limitations of its origin: it is indoor music, city music, distilled from the melancholy nightclubs and the marijuana...

I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows.

The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.

We've already agreed that I can't write about Ahmet or Pranav. So presumably I can't write about Maureen or Sky either . . . because they're both women! Or Lucky because he's a dog! At the end of the day, if I listened to you, I'd only write about myself! A book full of middle-aged white writers describing middle-aged white writers being murdered by middle-aged white writers!

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.