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Quotes About Limit

Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. 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
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
~ Winston S. Churchill
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
~ Yann Martel
My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
~ Yann Martel
error. It was Saturday evening, February 25, 2006, and I had twenty-four hours
~ Christopher McDougall
Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión".
~ Christopher McDougall
One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.
~ Chuck Barris
Creo que cada uno de nosotros llega a la verdad que puede tolerar. Y, parado allí, no se atreve a dar otro paso. Es un límite que pone nuestro propio instinto de conservación.
~ Unknown
For relatively small stars, the Pauli exclusion principle keeps the electrons in a star sufficiently separated to prevent the star from contracting further after it has spent its fuel. In other words, the electrons counteract the crushing gravitational force. However, for stars more than about 1.5 times the mass of the sun (a mass known as the Chandrasekhar limit), this repulsive force would not be enough to stop stellar collapse.
~ Unknown
you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.
~ Clive Bell
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
~ Herbert Stein
Quando si diventa adulti, uno finisce per rendersi conto che ha un tetto sulla testa, ovvero un limite. Man mano che passano gli anni, la testa s'avvicina al tetto, e uno vede chiaramente anche le macchie e la sporcizia. Forse non riuscite ancora a comprendere questi nostri sentimenti. Perciò al momento le vostre potenzialità sono illimitate. Perché sopra di voi s'estende il cielo infinito […]
~ Hiroyuki Takei
You can't pour wine back and forth between two vessels forever
~ Holly Black
I wonder if there's a limit to what I will let them do, if there is something that would make me fight back, even if it dooms me. If there is, that makes me a fool. But maybe if there isn't, that makes me a monster.
~ Holly Black
You just didn't go there.
~ Liane Moriarty
He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned
~ Lionel Shriver
If we've learnt anything in our practice of medicine," Kay whispered, "it's that there may be a limit to how healthy and happy a person can get, but there's no limit to suffering. So they can always make our lives worse.
~ Lionel Shriver
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I've done the Stratosphere stuff in Vegas, but I haven't skydived or anything like that.
~ Bubba Wallace
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.
~ Jimmie Johnson
A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
~ Jeff Lindsay
A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
YOU SHOULD LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU ACT AGAINST YOUR NATURE, LIKE SLEEPING WITH PEOPLE YOU HATE. IT¹S INTERESTING TO TEST YOUR CAPABILITIES FOR A WHILE BUT TOO MUCH WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.
~ Jenny Holzer
Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.
~ Nik Halik