Quotes About Limits

Because we fear other people's reactions and don't know how to respond, we allow them to violate our limits and boundaries.

Since femininity in all respects is a matter of containment, a woman whose hair exceeds the esthetic limits of her culture probably will employ some depilatory procedure to bring her body into line.

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

I know when I'm at full capacity, and two children is full capacity for me. If I had three or four, especially as a solo parent, it's a guarantee that I would inadvertently forget to sign at least one of them up for school, or send them off with no transcripts or emergency contacts.

Some things are impossible.

Love pushes boundaries and crosses every line you weren't meant to cross.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

And yet in the most powerful parts of the environmental movement, in the key decades during which we have been confronting the climate threat, these voices of warning have gone unheeded. The movement did not reckon with limits of growth in an economic system built on maximizing profits, it instead tried to prove that saving the planet could be a great new business opportunity. The

We all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what is actually finite—fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions. And we act as if there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually bountiful—the financial resources to build the kind of society we need. The task of our time is to turn this around: to challenge this false scarcity.

We are trapped within an economic system that has it backward; it behaves as if there is no end to what is actually finite (clean water, fossil fuels, and the atmospheric space to absord their emissions) while insisting that there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually quite flexible: the financial resources that human institutions manufacture.

In French, "decroissance" has the double meaning of challenging both growth, croissance, and croire, to believe—invoking the idea of choosing not to believe in the fiction of perpetual growth on a finite planet.

I watched them roam awhile, and had a small weep, but even grief had its limits. By dinner-time I was horribly bored.

even grief had its limits

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

I want to be great, I want to fight the best guys, I want to test myself, I want see what my limits are. I don't think a lot of guys in this sport really have that mentality.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.

the limits amplified the corrosive effects of ambition on the legislators, who focused from day one on how best to use their limited time as a springboard to their next post. That produced incentives to go for a big, short-term splash and leave the long-term mess to the next wave of their successors.

The main point that nullification addresses is that a government allowed to determine the scope of its own powers cannot remain limited for long.