Quotes About Limits

Christopher McDougall

Laws were made to be broken.

All men have limits. They learn what they are and they learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.

You will not discover the limits of the soul by traveling, even if you wander over every conceivable path, so deep is its story.

One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess

The limits of the soul you could not discover, though traversing every path.

Wer die rechtsstaatlichen Grenzen von Fall zu Fall verschieben will, der hebt sie auf.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

Men have been known to do anything and everything.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Când vine vorba de aman?ii unei femei, se aplic? îndeob?te aritmetica negrilor australieni: ei num?r? doar pân? la trei. Tot ce dep??e?te trei se cheam? "mul?i".

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

There's something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn't found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.

Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves.

The soul is the mystic lover. The soul is the mystic path. The soul is our guide. The soul is our life. We are the single soul without limits. - Shaykh Nur al-Jerrahi

This is why human relationships usually take me beyond my limits. They wear me out. They scatter my thoughts. They make me worry about what I have just said and what they have just said, and how or if that all fits together, and what they will say next and what I will say then, and do I owe them something or is it their turn to owe me, and why do the rules change depending

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?