Quotes About Limitation

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

La lengua inglesa, que puede expresar los pensamientos de Hamlet y la tragedia de Lear, carece de palabras para describir el escalofrío y el dolor de cabeza.

If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Only then does he have the chance to go beyond the limitations inherent in the various ego trips of Self 1 and to reach a new awareness of his true potential. Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.

Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away.

Successful people know that hours, like capital, can be consciously allocated with the goal of creating riches—in the form of a changed world, a life's work—over time. Indeed, successful people understand that work hours must be more carefully stewarded than capital because time is absolutely limited. You can earn more money, but the mightiest among us is granted no more than 168 hours per week, and it is physically impossible to work for all of them.

Magellan refused to consider this huge bay as anything more than that.

use of the word high is revealing. In Britain, high treason involved a crime against the Crown—as distinguished from petit treason, the betrayal of a superior by a subordinate. The Framers knew this and deliberately chose to incorporate the word high as a limitation on impeachable offenses.

Connection types have gone into freeze in order to survive. They are sensitive organisms whose capacity for intimacy and independence are greatly limited.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Incompetence," he argued, "knows no barrier of time or place.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.

Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest. Which is to say: she cast about for ideas for exacting revenge -- egged windows, flaming bags of dog shit -- and chose the best thing in her limited repertoire.

He had thrown every rock he could find and it was still not enough.

Joy develops into the panoramic situation of seeing or feeling the whole ground, the open ground. This open situation has no hint of limitation, of imposed solemnity. And if you do try to treat life as a "serious business," if you try to impose solemnity upon life as though everything is a big deal, then it is funny. Why such a big deal?

SOMETIMES OUR WAY OF THINKING LIMITS WHAT WE CAN SEE.

My only enemy is time.