Quotes About Limitation

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

A culpa em alguém como Bucky pode parecer absurda, porém é, de fato, inevitável. Uma pessoa como ele está condenada. Jamais irá corresponder ao ideal que carrega dentro de si. Nunca sabe onde termina sua responsabilidade. Jamais aceita seus limites porque, sobrecarregado com uma severa bondade natural que não lhe permite resignar-se ao sofrimento dos outros, nunca admitirá , sem se sentir culpado, que possa estar sujeito a alguma limitação

imaginación, y mi tarea en cuanto artista no consistía en desarrollar a mi imaginación, sino en contenerla, lo cual ya entonces me pareció imposible, porque todo era tan increíble que

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

She pressed her fingertips into the hard wood of the handrail until they whitened. She would constrict the world to a pinhole.

Niet kunnen lezen of schrijven. Nooit kunnen ontsnappen naar een andere wereld, noch een schuilplaats hebben voor de eindeloze stroom dagen.

Belief traps or frees us.

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.

Kipp yearned to say so much to her while time remained. Although his intelligence had somehow been enhanced to a human level, he lacked the vocal

Meanwhile, she is not being allowed to flee.