Quotes About Limitation

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own grey minds.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

Most of us can only see the world we know.

L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plaît.

Alas, it is when one is beginning to leave behind one's mortal body that one is the most hindered by it!

Society demands that he limit himself to his function… There are indeed many precautions to imprison a man in what he is as if we lived in perpetual fear that he might escape from it, that he might break away and suddenly elude his condition.

they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove...Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

In the distance. Above my head; above my head; and this instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

The Other is the hidden death of my possibilities.

Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It won't allow people to experience life and see what the world truly has to offer. People are stuck in their ways, stuck in their communities, stuck on their streets.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

It's a knack that my mother doesn't have. The only audiobook she ever did she had to leave after the first day, because she couldn't string two sentences together. It's about the only thing she can't do.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.