Quotes About Limitation

In an atomic pile an explosion is prevented by inserting rods of cadmium, which mop up the particles that are shooting around. In this way the energy in the pile is controlled. If there are too many rods, the chain reaction stops and the pile can no longer produce any energy. People who are unable to appreciate new ideas are like the rods: some of them are necessary to prevent a destructive explosion, but too many make it impossible for the pile to produce any energy.

Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

In The Federalist No. 23, Hamilton argued, "These powers [of the federal government to provide for the common defense] ought to exist without limitation: because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent or variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent & variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir?

The number of which this branch of the legislature is to consist, at the outset of the government, will be sixty-five. Within three years a census is to be taken, when the number may be augmented to one for every thirty thousand inhabitants; and within every successive period of ten years the census is to be renewed, and augmentations may continue to be made under the above limitation.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

The wounds produced by the traumas of our life may heal, but the scars remain. We cannot return to our original state of innocence. There will always be some limitation upon our being.

One science only will one genius fit/ So vast is art, so narrow human wit

Turning on Airplane Mode on your phone DOES NOT make you fly!

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

At times, I'll watch a cruiserweight match, and I'm very impressed at how they limit themselves with all of the acrobatics, but every once in a while, you'll see a match where they're doing things I couldn't dream of doing, but you get lost because there's so much.

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate - you can only put so many satellites up there. It's like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone builds the biggest thing they can put up there.

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.