Quotes About Limits

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

No society could survive—and surely no society could be decent—if everybody in it were able to communicate everything. —Daniel J. Boorstin

Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest.

effective parents expect their children to rise to life's challenges (as you know, there are plenty!) and to respect the rules and limits that will be required for their behavior. These

Believe it or not, I have boundaries.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

What I've learned from him is that boundaries are liberating. They can be readjusted all the time, but it's important to have them...If you burn out, no one's going to benefit. So it's in everyone's interest for you to do what you can and then make it clear that you can do no more.

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

Gossips are fine if they are within limits. But they shouldn't be obnoxious.

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

I will always try to be as normal as I can. Obviously, there may have to be some limits with it, but I am still a fan at heart and want to live like a normal person.

So many things are potable just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

BaÅŸkalar? doÄŸaya bak?nca orada kendi s?n?rlar?n?, yetersizliklerini, korkular?n? görürler. Sonra kendi zay?fl?klar?ndan korkup doÄŸan?n s?n?rs?zl???, büyüklüÄŸü, derler buna.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

Imaginó el dolor del mundo como un parásito informe buscando el calor de las almas humanas donde incubar y creyó saber qué le hacía a uno vulnerable a sus visitas. Lo que no sabía era que no tenía mente y por tanto no podía conocer los límites de aquellas almas y temió que no existieran límites.