Quotes About Limitation

Feet, for tens of thousands of years, had clogged and shuffled in the mud – and held down the minds which, for an equal time, had been fit for the companionship of the stars.

Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.' -- The Last Trump

Fakat art?k dünyan?n ne olduÄŸunu biliyordu: ÖzgürlüÄŸün s?n?rs?zl???yla kuÅŸat?lm?? bir hapishane..

hay ciertas cosas que la Humanidad no está destinada a conocer»

The infinity of potential knowledge may be infinitely greater than the infinity of my actual knowledge.

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

I always liked 'The Outer Limits' as a kid. More than 'The Twilight Zone.'

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

There is not room to swing a cat.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

A door must either be shut or open.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

I'm not much of a drinker. It only takes me one drink to get drunk . . . my fourth.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.