Quotes About Limits

As an athlete, there are limits to my ability to reach out, a platform that politics can offer.

I know the limits of my body.

Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

We care about margins.

pasaul? ir p?r?k daudz gr?matu, lai t?s izlas?tu vienas dz?ves laik?; kaut kur ir j?novelk sv?tra.

I don't intend to let myself become the kind of author who can only work in seclusion – after all, Jane Austen wrote in the sitting-room and merely covered up her work when a visitor called (though I bet she thought a thing or two) – but I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

What is a nebulous mass, just out of idle curiosity? A possible growth in the body. And it's called nebulous because you can't get a clear picture of it. We get very clear pictures. The imaging block takes the clearest pictures humanly possible. It's called a nebulous mass because it has no definite shape, form, or limits. What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies? Cause a person to die. Speak English, for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

Many things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values.

Aren't you going too far?" "I'm from New York.

Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values.

Human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptive, superb at inventing procedures and objects that overcome its own limits. The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities.

How many bites of the apple do you get?

In Paradise Lost he pushes English to its very limits but I think no language without noun cases could possibly support the structural order he attempts to impose.

The lone person on a wild landscape is a baseline of human liberty, a condition in which we are restrained by only physical limits and the bounds of our own consciousness.

For at least five hundred years, the Hawaiians lived in total isolation . They had no trade with the outside world, no other place to turn for the necessities of life; any islander could, with a walk to the nearest hilltop, see the limits of Hawaii's natural wealth. For all intents and purposes, they were living on a tiny, fragile planet surrounded by outer space.

When you push people where they don't want to be pushed, you will face even more resistance.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.

Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?... If he comes along and confines you in prison... who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries-we're in great danger.

Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?. . . If he comes along and confines you in prison. . . who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.