Quotes About Limits

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

By gaining self-knowledge we gain the ability to know when to press hard and when to pull back. Self-knowledge informs us of our limits.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of one's language were the limits of one's world. By coming up with fresh and arresting words to describe the world accurately, the writer expands the boundaries of her world, and possibly her readers' world, too. Real writing can do what R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. There

In spite of what many teachers of 'creative thinking' say, the best way to be creative is not to try to think without limits but to very carefully define what those limits should be.

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.