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Quotes About Limited

The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel]
~ Rebecca Solnit
in this day of limited legalized murder, germ warfare in Egypt and South America, and the notorious have-one-kill-one Nevada abortion law.
~ Richard Bachman
Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.
~ Richard Carlson
We're stuck, all of us, flailing around more or less creatively, washed up more or less conveniently, depending on luck. But stuck nonetheless, epoxied into life and circumstance, and always with limited options. The only question is what we do with those options, how we move forward into the time we have remaining.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
~ Karen Armstrong
They're limited edition,' she said. 'Listen,' I said 'they're not limited enough. These shouldn't have been made at all.
~ Karl Pilkington
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
~ Agnes Repplier
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
~ William Feather
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
~ Andre Malraux
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
How great in number are the little minded men
~ Plautus
Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.
~ Khurram Murad
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
~ Robert Harris
The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.
~ Sam Altman
A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
~ Leonard Read
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.
~ Pattiann Rogers
If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
~ Brad Williams
Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
~ Gary Holder-Winfield
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
~ William Howard Taft
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
~ David Attenborough
It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi