Quotes About Limits

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That's very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Evil has no limits. If you are a good person, everybody expects you to be good. If you are very good then you become Albert Schweitzer or Mother Theresa. Then you're very good because you are helping people. But evil has no limits.

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

There is a very thin line between relationship and friendship.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.

Sabbath keeping is the primary discipline that helps us live within the limits of our humanity and to honor God as our Creator. It is the key to a life lived in sync with the rhythms that God himself built into our world.

It had been an occasion for reminiscing, but there are limits. And so my childhood falls into a black hole.

49. It doesn't bother you that you weigh only x or y pounds and not three hundred. Why should it bother you that you have only x or y years to live and not more? You accept the limits placed on your body. Accept those placed on your time.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives.

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. I could make it run, push buttons, of one sort or another, make things happen. There were limits but my body was nevertheless lithe, single, solid, one with me. Now the flesh arranges it self differently.