Quotes About Limitation

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

I'm not that strong. I'm not fast.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

The perfect fighter has never been born and never will be.

Time is a finite resource.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic.

I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.

It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.