Quotes About Limits

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

A new way of looking is needed in a world which believes that every individual has a right to flower, within limits, in his or her own way.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

I had a really nice car. You can drive 103 and it not be dangerous.

This is the time for me to step out and show that I don't just want to play the nice guy roles, and I think I'll find out what my limits are.

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell

Technology does make possible advance toward shalom; progress in mastery of the world can bring shalom nearer. But the limits of technology must also be acknowledged; technology is entirely incapable of bringing about shalom between ourselves and God, and it is only scarcely capable of bringing about the love of self and neighbour.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

People want to explore, we want to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the joy of creation is something very few people get the opportunity to have in our society: artists get to have it, craftspeople have it, scientists.

The spectrum of discussion reflects what a propaganda model would predict: …the implicit message: thus far, and no further.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

In brief, if we are biological organisms, not angels, much of what we seek to understand might lie beyond our cognitive limits – maybe a true understanding of anything, as Galileo concluded, and Newton in a certain way demonstrated. That cognitive reach has limits is not only a truism but also a fortunate one; if there were no limits to human intelligence, it would lack internal structure and would therefore have no scope: we could achieve nothing by inquiry.

it's always useful to look at the establishment Left, marking the limits of what it is OK to say. Lewis wrote in New York Times (May 1, 1975) that the war began with "blundering efforts to do good." How do we know that? Because it's an axiom, a necessary truth. If the United States did it, it was an effort to do good. You don't need any evidence for that. That's hegemonic common sense. Why "blundering efforts"? Because it didn't work.

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them.

You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.

Je?li raz przekroczysz jak?? granic?, ju? zawsze b?dziesz j? przekracza?.

C'erano così tante leggi e, poco ma sicuro, almeno un miliardo di modi in cui le si poteva infrangere.

Porque después de haber cruzado ciertas líneas ya nunca dejas de cruzarlas.

I do have submissive courage, I do! But I have limits, too. Hard limits. Everyone does." Ashley

Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.

I thought I'd gone to the limits,' Frank explains. 'I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible....Some things have to be endured. Take it from me. And that's what makes the pleasures so sweet.