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Quotes About Limits

Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once.
~ Christopher Moore
En primer lugar, no dejéis que nadie gobierne vuestra mente ni vuestro cuerpo y emplead especial atención para no poner límites a vuestras ideas porque se puede ser un hombre libre a pesar de sufrir ataduras más fuertes que las de un esclavo. Escuchad a los hombres, pero no os entreguéis a ellos en cuerpo y alma. Sed respetuosos con los que ostentan el poder, pero no los sigáis ciegamente. Juzgad con lógica y con razón, pero no hagáis comentarios.
~ Christopher Paolini
Solo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos sabrán lo lejos que pueden llegar.
~ TS Elliot
Para ser tolerante, é preciso fixar os limites do intolerável.
~ Umberto Eco
Tudo é veneno, se tomado em doses exageradas, até o vinho.
~ Umberto Eco
Wages had gone up slightly—from fifty cents per day; this being another Catholic land, where birth control was banned or unknown, the population pressed inexorably upon the limits of subsistence. The well-to-do had the poor always with them and found it most convenient, because one could always get servants
~ Upton Sinclair
I contrast the now common belief in an ever-faster pace of innovation with the many unmistakable signs of technical stagnation and slowing advances: there are limits to everything, and invention and innovation cannot be exceptions.
~ Vaclav Smil
For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.
~ Victor Hugo
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
~ Victor Hugo
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
And right after the decision removing limits from PAC donations, the number of business PACs increased from three hundred to twelve hundred, generating gushers of money that helped triple the cost of campaigns for a House seat by the mid-1980s, which in turn gave PACs more power, and so on it has gone ever since, a vicious cycle corrupting democracy.
~ Kurt Andersen
But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.
~ L.A. Meyer
We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.
~ L.A. Meyer
We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we aren't allowed and that someone can back it up. -Jacky Faber
~ L.A. Meyer
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.
~ la bruyere jean de vii
Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
~ ladd george trumbull
The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound.
~ Laini Taylor
It wasn't simply a question of parlors and tea trays - though there was that, too. If she were coming in reality he would be limited by reality. But dreams were a different matter. He was Strange the Dreamer. This was his realm, and there were no limits here.
~ Laini Taylor
Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.
~ lalanne jack iii
Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.
~ Lance Edward Armstrong
No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell… forever.
~ Cassandra Clare
Come on. There's such a thing as overstayin' your welcome.
~ Catherine Cookson
psychological boundaries—the limits people create to identify safe, reasonable ways for others to interact with them.
~ Catherine Gildiner
She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
~ Catherynne M. Valente