Quotes About Limits

None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Spain, the western extremity of the empire, of Europe, and of the ancient world, has, in every age, invariably preserved the same natural limits; the Pyrenaean Mountains, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean. That great peninsula, at present so unequally divided between two sovereigns, was distributed by Augustus into three provinces, Lusitania, Baetica, and Tarraconensis.

on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Demasiado tarde esta fiesta lujosa en honor de la muchacha polvorienta comida por el deseo. Demasiado tarde esta exhibición de piedad humana con sus límites y terminaciones. ¿Cuánto tiempo puede seguir llorando? ¿Cuánto han de darme sus ojos en esta noche impecable con estrellas que son estrellas y una luna real que no oscila?

La libertà non è la ribellione ma piuttosto la pratica di una fantasia senza limiti all'interno delle restrizione imposte dal potere.

These decrees were like bullets from a musket that have missed their target and end up on the ground, where they don't threaten anyone. But that was a consequence of the great ease with which those decrees were issued. A man's actions are limited, especially when orders outstrip his ability to carry them out. For what enters the sleeve might not fit through the cuffs. —

The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

Launch not beyond your depth

So vast is art, so narrow human wit

Within these limits the power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

I never know what the future holds, so I'm just going to make all the power moves I can, ride that wave of success and accomplish everything I'm supposed to accomplish. I never set no limits for myself.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

The biggest thing that limits India's growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.

It is already tough to buy a house. But if we are bringing a population the size of Newcastle upon Tyne into the country every single year, if we cannot set limits on the number of people that come and work in Britain, then simple maths says it is going to be even more difficult to get on to the housing ladder.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

When I went to D.C., I thought I would have an incredible platform to help animals. But I realized very quickly that there were huge limits to what I could do.