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Quotes About Limit

Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit – in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. (Hardin 1968, p. 1,244)
~ Elinor Ostrom
We were moving fast, but at least we were within lightspeed communication range that wasn't longer than a human lifetime.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Hayflick limit, the natural limit that human cells have for dividing, and the stop switch happens to be telomeres that have become critically short. Are
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
By habit, she looked round the room she sat in. Anything she could do to it had been done; what it could do to her seemed without limit.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
You're brave to have driven all this way." Gwen considered for a moment whether this made her brave. In truth, she was always afraid, always worried. She shook her head. "Like I said, I've always wanted to come north for as long as I can remember." "Three thousand miles!" "Yes," still unimpressed by herself," but I never went over fifty.
~ Elizabeth Hay
On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
~ Ayrton Senna
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
~ Ayrton Senna
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
~ Scarface
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
~ Thomas Malthus
Buying a home is a very emotional process. It's important to remain rational and stick with your price limit while buying.
~ Scott McGillivray
You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.
~ Jean Alesi
I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
~ Jonny Wilkinson
I've realised I've hit enough tennis balls to last me a lifetime.
~ Tim Henman
I don't think I could hack it in the 200m.
~ Mary Cain
tax laws allow you to offset your earned income by up to $25,000 in passive losses from real estate, as long as your adjusted gross income is below $100,000.
~ Garrett Sutton
All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work has some weakness. But why? To limit the object's power, said the Good Wizard softly. Power is always best limited.
~ Garth Nix
You thought that we limit the choices of our students… We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.
~ Garth Nix
You may kiss me and eat one bite of my apple," she told him. "One bite, no more." He was frightened, and shook his head. "One bite will let you understand everything." Her voice was music. "Two bites would let you understand more than everything, and more than everything is too much." He backed away. The
~ Gene Wolfe
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
~ Eberhard Weber
The Whitsundays are a sailor's paradise and because they sit at the southern limit of one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef, they are also a diver's dream.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
~ Paul Gauguin
There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.
~ Jason Statham