Quotes About Limit

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

What see you in the horizon's bruised smear That cannot be blotted out By your raised hand?

Anything that's continuous can be sliced exactly (not just approximately) into infinitely many infinitesimal pieces.

Pi is fundamentally a child of calculus. It is defined as the unattainable limit of a never-ending process.

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.

Leonard Hayflick, in the 1960s, demonstrated that normal human cells have a finite limit to proliferation: the population only doubles in number about 50 times.

You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don't drink a gallon of it a day.

No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all. I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .

He tolerated it until he could tolerate it no more.

Adrenaline may fuel short bursts of exertion, but there is no third wind.

I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

my limit for useful spells is somewhere around nine or ten a day. I haven't found a limit for spells of mass destruction. I can learn a hundred of those just by glancing at them, and I never forget any of them.

I know that at your age these things look like the end of the world, but everything has a limit.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

Don't plan to drive more than 300 miles a day.

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the debts their previous actions have a beginning the country to pay. The symbol of railing against debt has proven politically beneficial, even if not substantively meaningful.

But time is short, and science is infinite...

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.