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Quotes About Limitation

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
~ Mark Twain
I do not drink more than a sponge.
~ Francois Rabelais
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
~ Anonymous
What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
~ Ernest Holmes
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
~ Joe Satriani
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
~ V.S. Naipaul
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
~ Benito Mussolini
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.
~ Richard Diebenkorn
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
~ David Guterson
Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.
~ Peter Molyneux
Man is not free unless government is limited.
~ Ronald Reagan
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
~ Nicanor Parra
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
~ Michelangelo
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
~ Clarence Darrow
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
~ John Milton
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
~ Igor Stravinsky