Quotes About Limitation

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

People categorise people as being disabled, and it's basically whatever you put your mind to, you can do, and everybody that has limitations, they can still do anything they want as long as they set their mind to it.

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things.

He was like a person in two dimensions seeking freedom in a third.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

But even if the average life expectancy continued to increase by one year with each passing year, it would take forever for people to live forever, so probably no one would ever see it.

In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

I found it, and now I can't look for it

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.

Por donde resulta indudable que la Naturaleza ha limitado por completo la producción de plantas y animales de volumen tan extraordinario a este continente, por razones cuya determinación dejo a los filósofos.

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.

A miracle has the right to impose conditions.

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen

Yo querría que este momento durara siempre -murmuré. -Siempre es una palabra que no está permitida a los hombres -afirmó Ulrica (…)

On lit ce qu'on aime, tandis qu'on écrit pas ce qu'on aimerait écrire, mais ce qu'on est capable d'écrire.

Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know...And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation... The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.

Der gewöhnliche Sterbliche ist nicht nur zufrieden, sondern geradezu stolz, daß er innerhalb der etablierten Grenzen bleibt, und die geläufigen Ansichten tun das ihre, sein Zagen schon vor dem ersten Schritt ins Unerforschte zu bestätigen.

Almost is such a wonderful word, don't you think?" said the shopkeeper with a wink. "So full of wiggle rom and loopholes, so not absolutely anything.