Quotes About Limitation

What I want and what's possible aren't necessarily compatible.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

And you're sucking up all our oxygen in here for what reason?

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself...

It's somewhat disconcerting to know that my lifespan is limited by your whim — and your available mana —and not feel any fear about it.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Progress will only get a guy so far, and it will never move beyond the wall of extinction.

He did well, but he couln't afford the blood for a transfusion.

Non potremo fare molto più di quanto ci sarà consentito. Ma cercheremo tutti di far sì che non sia molto meno.

Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.

In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.

With every film I've made, 'Whale Rider' included, I've had a vision that was far bigger than the budget allowed.

Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.

The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.