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Quotes About Limitation

the cause—that is the place where we cannot go.
~ Giles Foden
he was also banned even from engaging in conversation with two or more persons. He could not legally go to a child's birthday party any more than he could attend political rallies
~ Gillian Kendall
If you built the box, you can also break it down.
~ Gina Greenlee
El infinito no me aterroriza; me disgusta y me ofende. Para sufrir la humillación de mi pequeñez bastaba la tierra.
~ Giovanni Papini
Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.
~ Glen Cook
Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.
~ Gloria Steinem
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.
~ Author Unknown
His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world.
~ Jack London
but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
~ Jack London
Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.
~ Jack Vance
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.
~ Jack Vance
In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.
~ Jacob Bronowski
A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.
~ Jacqueline Carey
No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.
~ Jacques Ellul
As the two wardens looked on, the jailer shackled the old woman to an iron band with
~ James A. Connor
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
~ James Allen
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. -James Allen
~ James Allen
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
~ James Branch Cabell
A low budget is uncomfortable.
~ Lukas Haas
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
~ Bernard Beckett
Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.
~ Blythe Masters
You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.
~ Marcus Mariota
Human beings understand too much.
~ Seung Sahn
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld