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Quotes About Limits

The limits of the growth of individuation and self are set partly by individual conditions, but essentially by social conditions
~ Erich Fromm
Those who have suffered and started the revolution cannot go beyond the limits their past sets for them. Only those who have not been born in slavery may succeed in achieving the promised land.
~ Erich Fromm
Die Angst am Tage ist vernünftig; die Angst der Nacht ist ohne Grenzen.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries
~ Erik Larson
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
~ Erma Bombeck
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When spring came, even false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits
~ Ernest Hemingway
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness
~ Ernest Hemingway
En esta guerra se hacen muchas tonterías —dijo Agustín—. En esta guerra la idiotez no tiene límites.
~ Ernest Hemingway
no preferirías errar por pedir demasiado que por pedir muy poco?
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before…to test your limits…to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —Anaïs Nin
~ Esther Perel
PUPIL: I can count to . . . to infinity. PROFESSOR: That's not possible, miss. PUPIL: Well then, let's say to sixteen. PROFESSOR: That is enough. One must know one's limits. Count
~ Eugene Ionesco
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
~ Andrew Johnson
Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.
~ Andrew Lang
In retrospect, it is fair to conclude that the message of Limits to Growth was not ignored. It did get through to the elites for whom it was prepared, and they responded by squirreling away whatever resources they could carry off from the commonwealth. Denial is the term commonly used to describe resistance to evidence of climate change and other ecological threats. Yet the cumulative record of this steady pillage suggests the opposite has been occurring.
~ Andrew Ross
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Human greed knows no limits.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Human greed knows no limits. – Nivellen
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Freedom and contempt have their limits. Anyway, it's always like that. You're always somebody's tool.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.
~ Angela Carter
The Torah has set limits for every stage of grief: three days for weeping, seven
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Go to the Limits of Your Longing God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. From The Book of Hours I, 59
~ Anita Barrows