Quotes About Limitation

Some people just couldn't bear with the thought that we can't have everything we want. Our insatiable desire for more leaves us empty handed after the feast.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Ein goldener Käfig ist und bleibt ein Käfig.

My days had narrowed to the ambit of my eyes and my fingers' ends.

Mi estrecho mundo había encogido un poco más hasta reducirse a las grietas del suelo y las volutas talladas en los muros de piedra.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.

My relatives all say Jane wanted to change the world Then they add None of us can

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it - without having regard to any religion or opinion.

In the surface world our ability to make things happen is very limited. This limitation is a reflection of the incompleteness of a world without the spirit realm. So Spirit is our channel through which every gap in life can be filled. But the spirit realm will not take care of these gaps without our conscious participation. Thus our collaboration makes us central to the actual happening of a ritual.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. - Milton.

One of the most exciting and energizing forms of thought is the question. I always think that the question is like a lantern. It illuminates new landscapes and new areas as it moves. Therefore, the question always assumes that there are many different dimensions to a though that you are either blind to or that are not available to you. One of the reasons that we wonder is because we are limited, and that limitation is one of the great gateways of wonder.

The other limitation on our discussion is that for the most part I examine the principles of justice that would regulate a well-ordered society. Everyone is presumed to act justly and to do his part in upholding just institutions.

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

No se necesita valor para hacer una cosa cuando es lo único que puedes hacer.

there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

She's about as wide open as a fist.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.