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Quotes About Limit

O espaço, fora de nós, ganha e traduz as coisas: Se quiseres conquistar a existência de uma árvore, Reveste-a de espaço interno, esse espaço Que tem seu ser em ti. Cerca-a de coações. Ela não tem limite, e só se torna realmente uma árvore Quando se ordena no seio da tua renúncia.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
but you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.
~ Judy Blume
Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.
~ Walter Murch
Por ejemplo, el valor de la perseverancia requiere un límite para que no se convierta en fanatismo: "aprender a perder".
~ Walter Riso
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
~ Wendell Berry
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
~ Wendell Berry
Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,
~ Wendy Wax
Wenn Seufzer die Welt verbessern könnten, sie wäre längst keiner Verbesserung mehr fähig.
~ Wilhelm Raabe
There is a genuine limit on people's ability to assign distinct labels to stimuli on a dimension, and that limit is around seven labels.
~ Daniel Kahneman
We cannot do without reality and we cannot do without illusion. Each serves a purpose, each imposes a limit on the influence of the other, and our experience of the world is the artful compromise that these tough competitors negotiate.
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
~ Dar Williams
Those controlling political power will eventually find it more beneficial to use their power to limit competition, to increase their share of the pie, or even to steal and loot from others rather than support economic progress.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
I've said my patience is not infinite.
~ Darrell Issa
the Doctor said, as if he hadn't heard, 'but the fact remains that if we attempt to push things too far we might end up disappearing up our own singularity and, probably, take this entire section of the universe with us. And I think we've all had quite enough of that for a while.
~ Dave Stone
There's a limit to your love.
~ James Blake
A boundary is a phenomenon of opposition. It is the meeting place of hostile forces. Where nothing opposes there can be no boundary. One cannot move beyond a boundary without being resisted.
~ James P Carse
A finite game does not have its own time. It exists in a world's time. An audience allows players only so much time to win their titles.
~ James P. Carse
Well, anyway, that's it, we just ran out of time cause I have to be done at 5.40 right now, and it is exactly 5.40.
~ James Rolfe
There must come a moment when the soul knows: this far, and no further. But we are cursed never to hear that warning until it is too late.' – attributed to the remembrancer Ignace Karkasy [M31]
~ James Swallow
It was because these men, whatever their profession—philosopher, architect, lawyer, painter, doctor, artist and priest—were by force of the times they lived in soldiers also, and understood that speed and skill and toughness and above all self-confidence came from being pushed again and again and again past the edge of endurance until that limit became as elastic as an extra muscle, held in reserve.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Archie raised his voice. "Chops me!" he said bitterly. "But ye're a thrawn, bloody, rackle-tongued limmer. I'll come with ye to Saint-Cloud. I'll cut your meat at Compiègne. But there's a limit. I tell you now, there's a limit to what I'll do for you.
~ Dorothy Dunnett