Quotes About Limit

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Everybody is Equal and Everybody has a vote. But you have to draw the line somewhere.

Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

America is learning an ironic truth of empire: You endure by not fighting every battle. In the first century A.D., Tiberius preserved Rome by not interfering in bloody internecine conflicts beyond its northern frontier. Instead, he practiced strategic patience as he watched the carnage. He understood the limits of Roman power.

Far as we aim our signs to reach, Far as we often make them reach, Across the soul-from-soul abyss, There is an aeon-limit set Beyond which they are doomed to miss. Two souls may be too widely met. That sad-with-distance river beach With mortal longing may beseech; It cannot speak as far as this.

If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.

Daciano broke the spell. "Bettina, there is a limit." Without looking at him, she asked, "What does that mean?" He took her hand, smoothly returning her panties. "One day you'll convince me that you'll always want him." Just before he traced away, he murmured in her ear, "Take care, lest you lose a male who'll desire only you—and gain a male who'll desire only others.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

And it's also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid "dissolving in the universe", if you take it to its limit, is death. Because that's exactly what death is-the fullest possible dissolving of myself into the universe.

OvÅ¡em, je to jasné: chceme-li stanovit skute?nou hodnotu funkce, musíme ur?it její limitu. A je jasné, že limitou v?erejÅ¡ího hloupého "rozplynutí ve vesmíru" je smrt. Protože smrt je vlastnÄ› mé úplné rozplynutí ve vesmíru. Ozna?íme-li tedy lásku L a smrt S, bude L = f(S), tj. láska a smrt…

Amazing how much one could take and then all of a sudden he broke." "True.

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

Words you will never hear God say, "I have a quota."

Be it the edge of time or space, there is nothing so awe-inspiring as a border.

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.

One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For

All social mammals from chimpanzees to rats have ethical codes that limit behavior like theft and murder.

I confess I'm not on Twitter. You could say it's the ultimate schmoozing tool, but a limit of 140 characters suggests relationships that are too superficial for me. Hey, I do psychotherapy online. I like to go deep.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.