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Quotes About Limitation

Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.
~ Rick Bright
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
~ Walter Mosley
I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
~ Robert Fripp
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
~ C. Wright Mills
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
~ William Blake
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?
~ Philo
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
~ Chief Joseph
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
~ Thomas Sowell
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
~ Rene Char
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.
~ Neal Stephenson
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.
~ Neal Stephenson
Arsibalt was horrified. "But how can you not be fascinated by—" "I am fascinated," I insisted. "That's the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.
~ Neal Stephenson
His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.
~ Neal Stephenson
hadn't known that," I said. "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.
~ Neal Stephenson
They could not see what they could not imagine
~ Neal Stephenson
I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God's World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited. In My World, goodness is endless.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.
~ Nelson DeMille