Quotes About Limitation

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

You narrow hope when you define it.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

This shed does not contain me.

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

No man is taller than his head, and there is no big brain that is bigger than the head!

When you're corked...you're corked!

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.