Quotes About Limits

We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

I'm investigating where our boundaries lie by sometimes overstepping those boundaries.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

Rob and I both have a problem with taking jokes too far.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

It lies in the power of man, either permissively to hasten, or actively to shorten, but not to lengthen or extend the limits of his natural life. He only (if any) hath the art to lengthen out his taper that puts it to the best advantage.

No one can be the total cure for another person.

Gli scienziati ritenevano che il limite inferiore delle dimensioni corporee per un essere intelligente fosse dieci centimetri, e quindi la possibilità di trovare un Aristotele che zampettava era praticamente pari a zero. Figuriamoci un Aristotele unicellulare.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

History is what hurts, it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis...

le fait que toute manifestation formelle implique des limites qui contribueront indirectement à sa fin, n'est pas une raison suffisante pour qu'une tradition ne se manifeste pas ; la parole du Christ : « Celui qui frappe par l'épée, périra par l'épée » est d'une portée universelle : celui qui affirme, périra par l'affirmation.

I know my limits. You don't ever need to worry about me." "Thanks, Scot. I'll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle.

Inappropriate?" Pattern said. "Such as Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dividing by zero?

I'm not strong enough, I've never been strong enough. You know better than I what your limits are, Wit said. It's not such a terrible thing, to be too weak. Makes us need one another.

they explained that reducing anxiety meant paying attention to how much they could do and how much was too much, and learning how to say, "Enough." They got very clear on what was important to them and when they could let something go.

Ludwig Wittgenstein that I came across in college: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." What

being very clear about what's acceptable and what's not acceptable.

Respect is more important than anything else. Respect will create a foundation. But, just so you don't walk into something you aren't prepared for in the future, you need to be aware that he has his limits.

The desire for revenge can go on indefinitely, said Ekholm. There are no prescribed time limits. It's one of the oldest truths in criminology that an avenger can wait forever. If these are revenge killings, that is.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-cost with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.