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Quotes About Limits

life is too narrow to walk in but wide to run throw
~ Jack Daniels
Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.
~ Jack London
The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.
~ John Shelby Spong
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
~ Paul Davies
'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so.
~ Scott Turow
It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
~ Lindsey Graham
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
~ Walter Lippmann
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
~ Charles de Leusse
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~ Blaise Pascal
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
~ Confucius
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
~ Victor Hugo
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
~ Socrates
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
~ Euripides
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
~ Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.
~ Anthony D. Williams
They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?
~ Jonathan Cainer
What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
~ Ed Crane
The final step into feral is murder. We stand between that and you. We say, when no one else will, There are rules here. There are limits. There are boundaries that don't move.
~ Tana French
El mismo Dios había establecido los límites de las naciones y había creado las diferentes razas, por lo que ningún hombre debía intentar cambiarlos.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.
~ Robert Winston
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse