Quotes About Limitation

I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.

Para não nos deixar aflitos, a natureza fez bem em restringir ao lado de fora a nossa ação de enxergar.

He who had never actually seen a river, the first time he did so took it for the ocean, since we think that the biggest things that we know represent the limits of what Nature can produce in that species.

For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.

Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. —WOODY ALLEN

el vacío tiene energía, como sospechaba Tesla. Pero la cantidad de energía es probablemente demasiado pequeña para ser utilizada como una fuente de energía útil.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

My hand was a balloon sculpture, nerveless and fragile; it wouldn't do what it was told.

I can't escape from here. Not because it's too high but because I've nowhere to go.

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.

I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But

it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Ah, a falha da nossa ciência é querer explicar tudo, e quando não consegue, diz que não há nada que explicar

I told you, dude," Van Patten says and then patiently restates his facts. "We can't get that. It's like zero zero zero point oh one percentage—

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.