Quotes About Limits

Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.

The fact that we find it hard to imagine how such an alternative life could be endlessly engaging and interesting is perhaps more a reflection on the limits of our imaginations than on the life itself.

The problem with police work, he once told Ray Jenkins, was that by its nature it tended to attract a certain percentage of sadistic people, who enjoyed the job because it legitimized their natural meanness. So, he added, the first thing any good police chief had to do was set the limits for his

The law always limits every power it gives.

To withdraw life-prolonging treatments when these are no longer of benefit to the patient is to recognise the limits of a doctor's power, allowing the dying person to die as a consequence of their underlying disease. This is clinically, ethically and legally different from deliberately ending life as in euthanasia or PAS." Arguments

Clausewitz summarises both the value and limits of theory: '[Theory] is meant to educate the mind of the future commander, or, more accurately, to guide him in his self-education, not to accompany him to the battlefield.

The problem with riding over your head is that the laws of physics are self-enforcing.

Nada é impossível, e o nosso trabalho é expandir os limites.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

God sets boundaries before He gives blessing.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.