Quotes About Limits

Children need limits and feel anxious in their absence. This is one of the reasons they test limits—to be certain they are there. They need to know that someone is flying the plane.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission.

it's as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: "I am sorry, poor fellow, but creation has its limits.

You can't get blood out of a fucking turnip!

As the Yale historian Paul Sabin has written, the oil shock "seemingly confirmed the thesis of The Limits to Growth.

Prophets sneer that the Wizards' faith in human resourcefulness is unthinking, scientifically ignorant, even driven by greed (because remaining within ecological limits will cut into corporate profits).

The true problem was not that humankind risked surpassing natural limits, but that our species didn't know how to tap more than a fraction of the energy provided by nature.

Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions.

I have omitted the numbers to highlight that the basic argument is as simple as it was in Vogt's day. Stay within the limits, and people can develop freely. Go beyond the boundaries—exceed carrying capacity—and trouble will ensue.

Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume.

I've found that many of the people who have a passion for karaoke too often have misplaced confidence, which can become aggressive and border on sadistic. I know my limits, and karaoke is where I draw the line. I wouldn't put anyone through the hell of listening to me sing a song, and I sure as shit wouldn't wait in line to do it.

For physical goods, the twentieth-century limits to choice were based on three distribution bottlenecks—you could only buy things that passed all of the three tests: 1. The products were popular enough for manufacturers to make. 2. The products were popular enough for retailers to carry. 3. The products were popular enough for you to find (via advertising or prominent placement in stores near you). As Amazon showed, the Web could help with the latter two, right out of the gate.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

I believe in everything in moderation, including exercise.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

The most important thing about drinking on the road is just you've gotta do it in moderation, first of all. You've gotta know your limits.

I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.

There are limits to monetary policy.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.

States should be humble. Bureaucrats must recognise the limits of their knowledge. There is always a risk that the bird's eye view is so grand and sweeping as to induce delusions of omnipotence.

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.