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Quotes About Limits

But sharing has its limits. It might make you famous, but chances are it won't earn you a buck. It might find you new people to connect with, but it won't make it any easier to click with them. And it might let you tell the world what's on your mind; but it won't make the world listen.
~ China Mieville
I would approach the problem aslant. No matter what my father's intention, I could still make Arjun's heart beat faster. I could still influence how he thought. Perhaps Time was the master player. But within the limits allowed to humans in this world the sages called unreal, I would be a player, too.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
~ Chris Marker
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
We become programmed with a set of upper limits for what we believe we deserve in life. That includes how healthy, how prosperous, and how well loved we can expect to be. These beliefs operate in our subconscious, under the radar of our everyday consciousness. But they unerringly attract to us experiences that reinforce what we already believe.
~ Christiane Northrup
It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Test your limits. Learn what you can endure.
~ Christina Baker Kline
My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.
~ Christina Baker Kline
I count a hundred steps and start again. My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure. He said this when we were in the throes of sickness on the Agnes Pauline, and again in the bitter first winter in New York, when four of us, including Mam, came down with pneumonia. Test your limits. Learn what you can endure. I am doing that.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Test your limits. Learn what you can endure. I am doing that. As
~ Christina Baker Kline
Toute science construit son objet. Ceci signifie que non seulement son contenu théorique mais les limites et la définition de son champ d'application, son domaine même, loin de préexister à la discipline, en sont une création.
~ Christine Delphy
Táblákat kellene állítani a kortárs regények elé: ideköltözni tilos, letelepedni tilos, itt berendezkedni tilos. Aki szilárd talajt akar a lába alá, annak sokkal több kell, mint amit az irodalom és m?vészet valaha is nyújthat.
~ Heinrich Boll
One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.
~ Heinrich Boll
T)he realisation that there is a particular form of intelligence in the world that is boar-intelligence, boar-sentience. And being considered by a mind that is not human forces you to reconsider the limits of your own.
~ Helen Macdonald
fear cannot be limited, just as love cannot have limits.
~ Helen Schucman
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
~ Henry Ford
um conjunto de regras de aceitação geral que define os limites de ação aceitáveis, e um equilíbrio de poder que impõe a contenção quando as regras são violadas, impedindo que determinada unidade política venha a subjugar as outras.
~ Henry Kissinger
suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love
~ Leonard Cohen
I would guess that there are limits to what we can understand. But old people always think there are limits to what we can understand. It's the young people who push past those limits.
~ Leonard Susskind
Certo, lo riconosco, la castità è spaventosa: ma soltanto nei primi tempi che la si sceglie ed affronta... Poi avviene qualcosa di simile, lei mi può capire, a quel che succede nell'arte, per chi la fa: i limiti e le preclusioni espressive ne sono la forma, non sono limiti e preclusioni. Allo stesso modo, la castità è la forma più sublime cui l'amor proprio può accedere: un far diventare arte la vita.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
So I shall be honest Ã¢â'¬â€œ I don't think that I can love a man for longer than…" She mused as she leant her head charmingly to the side and considered. "One year?" I suggested. "What are you thinking of? Ã¢â'¬â€œ perhaps one month" "Even for me?" "No, for you… perhaps two." "Two months!" I gasped. "Two months is quite long
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Convert limitations into limits; limits into boundaries; boundaries into borders; and borders into passageways.
~ Leslie Miklosy
The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.
~ Leslie Stephen