Quotes About Limits

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

I'm interested in how we can put political principles into practice in our personal lives and the limits of theory when it comes to our desires and needs.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.