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Quotes About Limit

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.
~ Paul Ricoeur
creating paradoxes that are clearly apparent on the border.
~ Paul Theroux
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.
~ Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
theory of limit loads
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
In the beginning of your career, the Russian expert advises you to limit your load to three sets per exercise in two-arm exercises and three sets per arm in one-arm drills. You should select a weight that enables you to do no less than 5-6 and no more than 15-16 repetitions in a given exercise.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
~ Tony Evans
I mean that we control the way we remember the past, and that's what matters in the present. We choose what is worthy of our memory. We should probably be grateful that we can't remember everything as God does, because if we did, we would find it impossible to forgive anyone. The limit of human memory encourages humility.
~ Dara Horn
The Senate Transportation committee recommends the federal speed limit be raised on highways going through boring or ugly areas, so drivers can get through them quicker. "In Indiana, for instance," the committee says, "it should be 135 miles per hour.
~ Dave Barry
can do this. You can make it. Forty miles per hour. He pushed the throttles ahead and crept the speed stick up to forty-five. He was almost topped out now. Even with the twin stern-drive engines he wouldn't be able to muster more speed without unduly depleting his fuel. And there
~ David Baldacci
Not a proponent of the thirty-minute-wait rule?" said Blum.
~ David Baldacci
The Three-Fifths Clause had to do only with representation: it was an anti-slavery provision designed to limit the number of pro-slavery representatives in Congress.
~ David Barton
We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time the infinite is charmed into compliance, its luxuriance subordinated to the harsh concept of a limit.
~ David Berlinski
He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.
~ David Foster Wallace
You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.
~ David Foster Wallace
There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit.
~ William Shakespeare
If it be love indeed, tell me how much. There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
~ William Shakespeare
The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
~ William Shakespeare
I am too much in the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
~ William Shakespeare