Quotes About Limits

o sonho de um progresso sem limites é na verdade um pesadelo cheio de fúria e de morte.

Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not yet ends. It is when one first sees the horizon as an end that one first begins to see.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

Truly, I have boundaries. I am someone who has a very, very, strong, amazing, powerful boundaries. I'm the boundary queen.

I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.

We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus he might have asked himself – what is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent? Perhaps there is a realm of wisdom from which the logician is exiled? Perhaps art is even a necessary correlative of, and supplement for science?

The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed in the universal value of a single method. On both side a severe critique must lead each method back to its just limits, and teach them to ask aid of the other methods and manners of approach which, by their convergence, will permit the mind to embrace the diverse aspects of reality

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.