Quotes About Limit

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.

um momento é o máximo que você pode esperar da perfeição.

George A. Miller, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information," Psychological Review 63, 81–97 (1956).

Social media wasn't usually my thing, as it had the word social in it, but I'd taken to the platform after a personal tragedy. I had a cat, the cat died, and now what I used to say to my cat all day, I tweeted. It helped that 140 characters was roughly my preferred limit when it came to human interaction.

The experience of disillusionment is different. Here it was not one's fellow man (whose superficiality and lack of feeling was so disgusting that one finally felt like creeping into a hole and neither hearing nor seeing human beings any more) but fate itself which seemed so cruel. A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.

The experience of disillusionment is different. Here it was not one's fellow man (whose superficiality and lack of feeling was so disgusting that one finally felt like creeping into a hole and neither hearing nor seeing human beings any more) but fate itself which seemed so cruel. A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

oh, they had to go before the end they had to be back at ten

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.

Da linedanseren var kommet halvveis, tok tauet slutt.

Non possiamo illuderci che la natura abbia una capacità illimitata di riparare ai guasti che l'uomo le infligge.

there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.

The Casa de Contratación decreed that Magellan must limit his entire crew to 235 men, including cabin boys.

Words are like sweets; too many of them make you sick.

enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?

Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.