Quotes About Limits

God's love shines on anyone who understands the limits of endurance, and allows forgiveness

Patients must be willing to give up their maladaptive coping styles in order to change. For example, patients who continue surrendering to the schema—by remaining in destructive relationships or by not setting limits in their personal or work lives -perpetuate the schema and are not able to make significant progress in therapy.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

People will take as much as you will give them, not because they are terrible humans, but because they only want this one slice of you. It doesn't seem like much to them.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

But—but he is your friend!" "So he is. But there are limits to everything. I will not share you with any man, Félicité, either physically or mentally.

Casey was in the bed with Ali. And that was where I drew the line. Because eww.

Hay?r, baz? kusurlar ba???lanamaz... Bir toplumu uçuruma sürükleyen a??r? hoÅŸgörüdür.

S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.

The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.

Now I am being called upon for some purpose. I answer the call determined to observe the right limits; to act with restraint, but also with confidence, devoid of desire or aversion towards externals.

Heureusement que les monarques vont parfois trop loin, sinon ils ne tomberaient jamais" (dans Léon l'Africain)

À présent, tout ce qui n'est pas interdit est obligatoire !

One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one's mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one's image in the mirror.

This is why Fuller's definition depends upon consciousness. Our awareness of energy events defines their existence; we cannot go beyond the limits set by our understanding.

The present situation is perverse. It is as if we were to subsidize the chemical industry to intentionally pollute rivers and lakes. Such subsidies would encourage additional pollution. If the industry were asked to limit the pollution, it would complain that its costs would increase. Would such complaints make us tolerate the pollution? Subsidizing banks to borrow excessively is just like subsidizing and encouraging companies to pollute when they have clean alternatives.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."3

You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.