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Quotes About Limits

The highway's closed at a certain point. You have a certain amount of miles that you can make. It's a recognition of mortality.
~ Unknown
Traits I can manage, prohibited words I can't.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
~ Peter Høeg
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
~ Numbers 35:26
So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ëAll that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.í” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.
~ 1 Kings 20:9
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
~ Job 13:27
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
~ Job 14:5
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
~ Job 38:10
and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?
~ Job 38:11
We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.
~ 2 Corinthians 10:13