Quotes About Limitation

Las palabras nunca alcanzan cuando lo que hay que decir desborda el alma

Esto del tiempo es complicado, me agarra por todos lados. Me empiezo a dar cuenta poco a poco de que el tiempo no es como una bolsa que se rellena. Quiero decir que aunque cambie el relleno, en la bolsa no cabe más que una cantidad y se acabó.

Don't bring up the Beyonder any more than necessary.

It was as if he had lived all of his twenty-six years within an artificially narrow bandwidth of his potential personhood, only to have the scales fall abruptly from his eyes.

U osvit spoznajne revolucije, ogovaranje je pomoglo Homo sapiens-u da stvori ve?e i stabilnije grupe. Ali, ?ak i ogovaranje ima svoja ograni?enja. Sociološka istraživanja su pokazala da je maksimalna veli?ina grupe povezane ogovaranjem oko 150 pojedinaca. Ve?ina ljudi ne može li?no da poznaje niti uspešno da ogovara više od 150 ljudskih bi?a.

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

Urgh. How frustrating. I don't even have time to gloat.

Why do you think it's not possible? The sparrow can look up the sky and Garuda too can look down and desire the sparrow.

Our reasoning brain is weak, and our tongue is weaker still", remarks St Basil the Great. "It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind."10

I was the girl who could be anything-that's what my teachers used to say, and I believed them. I just never realised that 'anything'could include this.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

I hardly do any exercise because of my arthritis and my joints.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

When an American thinks about the problem of government-building, he directs himself not to the creation of authority and the accumulation of power but rather the limitation of authority and the division of power.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

It is of the very nature of partial seeing that we cannot see all the reconciliation of the parts we see, because it is only in the whole that they are one, and we do not see the whole. The word we form cannot wholly express God: only the Word He generates can do that. To be irked at this necessary darkness is as though we were irked at not being God.

Küçücük bir dünyada büyük insanlar olarak kalmak m? istiyoruz, yoksa uçsuz bucaks?z bir dünyada küçük insanlar olmak m??

Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.

Das Mögliche ist beinahe unendlich, das Wirkliche streng begrenzt, weil doch nur eine von allen Möglichkeiten zur Wirklichkeit werden kann. Das Wirkliche ist nur ein Sonderfall des Möglichen und deshalb auch anders denkbar.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.