Quotes About Limit

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

How much of a smell can you smell, until you can't smell it anymore?

Repeating the same argument for each thin rectangle, we come to the conclusion that the total distance covered during the time interval (o,t) is equal to the area of the staircase or, in the limit, to the area of the triangle ABC.

Sometimes, when the power of your enemy is too great, the only thing you can do is contain it.

Every beginning is in time, and every limit of extension in space. Space and time, however, exist in the world of sense only. Hence phenomena are only limited in the world conditionally, the world itself, however, is limited neither conditionally nor unconditionally.

To the cosmological question, therefore, respecting the quantity of the world, the first and negative answer is, that the world has no first beginning in time, and no extreme limit in space.

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

60,000 kilometres per second may be the practical (!) speed limit for space travel

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

Little boats should keep near shore.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

More than enough is too much.

I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.

Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.