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Quotes About Limitation

growth is limited by their fanaticism. They belong mostly to the
~ Alice A. Bailey
I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might
~ Alison Weir
It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.
~ Allen Elkin
The sky is not the limit — the ground is.
~ Allen Roulston
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
~ Alvin Toffler
Ã…Å¡mierci przyjrzaÅ'am siÄ™ z bliska: Å›mier? to byÅ' sufit. Gdy zna siÄ™ sufit lepiej od siebie samej, to siÄ™ nazywa Å›mier?. Sufit jest tym, co przeszkadza oczom patrze? w górÄ™, a myÅ›lom wzlatywa? w przestworza.
~ Amelie Nothomb
As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can't sell a weapon, and here's how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, 'See, this isn't subject to the limitation.'
~ Tim Kaine
An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.
~ Gilles Deleuze
One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
~ Stephen Hawking
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.
~ Martin Rees
The Internet shows me how limited my interests are - there's everything out there and I'm still looking at what the weather's going to be like in Scotland.
~ Frankie Boyle
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
~ will.i.am
I am allowed one matchbox-sized piece of cheese a week.
~ Bob Mortimer
Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
~ Colin Jost
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
~ Patti Smith
I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.
~ Corey Stewart
People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
~ Michael Phelps
I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.
~ Richard Quest
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
~ Edmund Burke
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
~ Robert Shea
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
~ Joan Didion
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
~ Bruce Jackson
I do live with the very real possibility that we don't have endless stories to tell.
~ Khaled Hosseini
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
~ Emil Cioran