Quotes About Limits

It's a Secret of Adulthood: I give myself limits to give myself freedom.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

From them there was never any gossip, for to even the commonest of mortal instincts there are terrible boundaries.

Zaman?n, uzam?n ve doÄŸal yasalar?n insan? deli eden, y?prat?c? s?n?rlamalar?n? silkip atmak -engin uzakl?klarla baÄŸlant? kurmak- sonsuzluÄŸun ve hudutsuzluÄŸun en esrarl?, en derin s?rlar?na yaklaÅŸmak; böyle bir ÅŸey, kuÅŸku yok ki, insan?n hayat?n?, ruhunu ve ak?l saÄŸl???n? tehlikeye atmaya deÄŸerdi!

I have a rule about no material being sacred.

The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.

I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?

I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats,though.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

somewhere along the line, this freedom stuff got way out of control.

Codependency is about normal behaviors taken too far. It's about crossing lines.

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating. Speculating becomes mortally dangerous the moment you begin to take it seriously. You must put strict limits on the amount you are willing to wager.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

All movements go too far.

The chief importance of knowledge by description is that it enables us to pass beyond the limits of our private experience. In spite of the fact that we can only know truths which are wholly composed of terms which we have experienced in acquaintance, we can yet have knowledge by description of things which we have never experienced.