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Quotes About Limits

Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured and remain for ever, The Labyrinth hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is the Labyrinth, and where the Labyrinth is, there must we ever be. Hoo.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
~ Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
~ Gerhard Kocher
Who knows whether we are right in saying that the sufferings of the divine-human Jesus have the "infinite worth" demanded by the scheme? All such speculations are really quite beyond the limits of our knowing. They are at best conjecture, which for many people, as history shows too plainly, only calls the gospel into question.
~ Gerhard O. Forde
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
~ Gertrude Stein
Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them
~ Giacomo Leopardi
A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.
~ Gillian Rose
Sometimes love just isn't enough to make something possible,
~ Gina Frangello
Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.
~ Gina Greenlee
Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.
~ Gina Greenlee
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~ Giorgio de Chirico
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
~ Giosué Borsi
A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.
~ Gish Jen
He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.
~ Gish Jen
Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.
~ Glendon Swarthout
there is no check or limit on the NSA's bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government's interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so broad that even the law's original authors were shocked to learn how it was being used.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I found the sheer vastness of the spying system genuinely shocking, all the more so because it had clearly been implemented with virtually no accountability, no transparency, and no limits. The
~ Glenn Greenwald
Whatever you've imagined your limits of strength and daring to be, the strongest woman in the world can inspire you to go beyond them. That's what champions are for.
~ Gloria Steinem
Esos pocos árboles que no son míos me impiden la plena posesión del mundo.
~ Goethe
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Madouc considered. 'I would like a wand to do transformations, a cap of invisibility, swift slippers to walk the air, a purse of boundless wealth, a talisman to compel the love of all, a mirror—' 'Stop!' cried Twisk. 'Your needs are excessive!
~ Jack Vance
It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.
~ Jacqueline Carey