Quotes About Limits

Our world is now so complex, our technology and science so powerful, and our problems so global and interconnected that we have come to the limits of individual human intelligence and individual expertise.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness...

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

That's right … we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty

Nothing within the limits of the human imagination and mind is impossible. If it were, we could not imagine it or dream it.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Some people feel divorce is an excuse to not compromise. Yes, in life you have to adapt and compromise. But the questions is - when does it stop? How much is too much, how less is too little? That's a personal choice.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.

I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.

He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.

One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.

There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.

You will please him more readily if you live within the limits proper to you, and do not set your sights at things beyond you (Sir. 3:22).

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

Truth by definition excludes.

We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes…. The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge. —BILL JOY, "WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US