Quotes About Limit

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Was there no limit to the suffering of human beings? The world was infested with these enclaves of savagery that awaited him in Putumayo. How many? Hundreds, thousands, millions? Could the hydra be defeated? Its head was cut off in one place and reappeared in another, bloodier and more horrifying.

On ne peut s'apitoyer sur soi que quand nos malheurs sont encore soutenables...une fois cette limite franchie, le seul moyen de supporter l'insupportable, c'est d'en rire.

How much above zero still produces zero is not known.

Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.

Index your important money, then go have fun," Burton Malkiel told me. "It's better than going to the racetrack." But, he said, limit yourself to 5% or less of your total assets or portfolio.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. —MARIO ANDRETTI

At times all I would need is a single word, a simple little word of no importance, to be great, to speak in the voice of the prophets; a word of witness, a precise word, a subtle word, a word well steeped in my marrow, gone out of me, which would stand at the other limit of my being and which, for everyone else, would be nothing.

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

There's a limit to everything; even chicken soup with kreplach can get to be too much.

at least one of the meanings of a symptom corresponds to the presentation of a sexual fantasy, while there is no such limit to the content of its other meanings.

It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute.

He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.

Life is like a speed limit, our lives have limit.

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

Women will have but one purpose: to give birth to more of Us. That Is All! They say the great civilizations collapsed when We threatened to take over. Theyve missed the point. They collapsed because We didnt go to the inevitable limit: which is complete

If it be said, that an Omnipotent Creator, though under no necessity of employing contrivances such as roan must use, thought fit to do so in order to leave traces by which man might recognize his creative hand, the answer is that this equally supposes a limit to his omnipotence. For if it was his will that men should know that they themselves and the world are his work, he, being omnipotent, had only to will that they should be aware of it.

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. But

where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done.

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

Avevo sempre rimpianto che, ai tempi moderni, non ci fosse più sulla terra qualche limite vietato, come per gli antichi le Colonne d'Ercole, perché mi sarebbe piaciuto di oltrepassarlo io per primo, sfidando il divieto con la mia audacia.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George