Quotes About Limits

Do you see the invisible spirals on the margins of the page? I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

Don't let your mind set limits that aren't really there.

Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody. She nodded several times and brought a napkin to her damp cheeks. That's true, she said. Very true. But at the same time, can't you always do more?

Government cannot be all things to all people.

Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

The tenets (and limits) of behaviorism are well conveyed in an old joke: Two behaviorists make love. The first then says to the second, "Well, it was great for you. But tell me, how was it for me?

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends. But how many people have verified that physically possible?

Agarra una abeja desde la amabilidad y aprenderás las limitaciones de la amabilidad.

To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough.

Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

Every day, I bang into the intolerable wall of my limits, but I just keep going on. Like a bicycle. If I stop, I'll fall.

I'm a competitive guy. So when push comes to shove when I'm in the cage, I always push to my limits to get the victory because that's who I am.

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you. I would—

boundary blindness

I know my limits," he assures him. "You just don't like that I know yours.