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Quotes About Limitation

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~ David Weber
Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.
~ David Weber
I hate time travel.
~ Unknown
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.
~ Yann Martel
We will never be perfect: that is our limitation.
~ Zadie Smith
It's bad to have some power, but not enough.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
~ Michael Douglas
Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.
~ Pernell Roberts
Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.
~ Taika Waititi
You can't be all things to all people.
~ Joseph Abboud
My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.
~ Martin Cooper
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
~ Milan Kundera
I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.
~ Jerry Lewis
I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.
~ Craig Thompson
Ale rozum jest zawsze czym? mizernym wobec uczucia; jest ograniczony jak wszystko, co pozytywne; uczucie jest bez kresu. Rozumowa? tam, gdzie trzeba uczu?, to w?a?ciwo?? ma?ych dusz. Vandenesse
~ Honore de Balzac
There is measure in all things.
~ Horace
Perhaps nature rations tears. That would be very sensible. You are born with three million one hundred and seventy-two potential tears, and you can use them up by the time you are eighteen or you can conserve them.
~ Howard Fast
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.
~ Howard Nemerov
Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have. March 18, 2022 'The Empirical Observations of Algernon' (vol. II)
~ Unknown
Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have.
~ Unknown
But games aren't magic, and the most special thing about them isn't unique to them anyway—their artificial, deliberately limited structures teach us how to appreciate everything else that has a specific, limited structure. Which is just to say, anything whatsoever. Play isn't our goal, but a tool to discover and appreciate the structures of all the malls and fishbowls we encounter. Once
~ Ian Bogost
If it were a peg, you couldn't hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.
~ Ian Rankin
Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will
~ Ian Stewart
How our horizons shrink when we stride towards them.
~ Unknown