Quotes About Limitation

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

We are not all. We are defined within a greater definition, and this greater definition eludes comprehension, because we are lacking. Incapable. Insufficient.

Indeed, his vision was failing him in all things. It was an old man's curse, he believed, to witness the horizons on all sides drawing ever closer.

Space and time would no longer make sense below these scales. They're the end of the line.

I'm not afraid of heights, just widths.

I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of widths.

You can't have everything... where would you put it? Steven Wright

I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

Enough," said he, "is always a little more than a man has.

Humans had to make do with what they could.

I cannot own the sky.

We will talk of these things, for there is more to know than we know and more to say than we can say.

Humans belong to the group of conscious beings that are carbon-based, solar system-dependent, limited in knowledge, prone to error and mortal.' It is strangely comforting to be granted tacit permission to make mistakes just because we are human.

Vivimo en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

Neither can drive.

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

There's just some things you can't change.