Quotes About Limitation

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Quand apprendras-tu qu'il n'existe pas un mot pour chaque chose ?

cu cât st?pânul st? mai sus, cu atât mai mult se lungeÈ™te funia robiei noastre, s?rim atunci È™i zburd?m într-o b?t?tur? mai larg?, murim f?r? s?-i d?m de cap?t È™i asta numim libertate [...]

Could it be that the higher one's master stands, the rope tying one to slavery is lengthened by the same amount? In that case, if we jump and frolic in a much wider domain, we die without ever discovering its boundaries.

The fears we cannot climb become our walls.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

You have to unhook your seat belt. That's not true. I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.

If you want to experience a free-flowing discourse devoid of limitation, you need to seek the darkest fringes of the Internet (and none of that anonymous bile can bleed back into proper society, because the interpretation always ends up being worse than the original sentiment).

But of course, this limitation was not something people worried about, because caring that much about any TV show was not a normal thing to do.

There's simply no way around the limited ceiling of my own mind.

And a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Weren't allowed to carry blasters.

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how much space you had. On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The place was big in its smallness. Here, she was free of her master but slunk around a warren so tiny she couldn't stand.

Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

There is nothing conceivable which would so condition a man as to leave him without the slightest freedom. Therefore, a residue of freedom, however limited it may be, is left to man in neurotic and even psychotic cases. Indeed, the innermost core of the patient's personality is not even touched by a psychosis.

that was tied to his wrists. His toes hovered only

We can't all do everything.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.