Quotes About Limitation

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This composite placement is not saying that the relationship is good or bad, nor that it is in pain. It is merely stating a fact: the full potential of the relationship can never be reached because something was irrevocably damaged long before the two individuals were born.

she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.

a great man. But...not quite great enough.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know.

confined to an upstairs room much of the time.

There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by.

Liberty has never come from government," Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR's predecessors and another Democrat, said. "The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government's power, not the increase of it.

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?

On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see its way home.

Yeah. He wants to be a…what do you call those guys?" "A sommelier?" "Right. Said he wanted to see your collection." "At fifteen he's already decided what he wants to be?" "Lots of guys have." "Is that wise? To limit your options at such a young age?

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.

It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

A comfortable prison was still a prison.

to admit we do not understand a phenomenon is not to admit the presence of the miraculous but merely, reasonably, to accept the limitations of human knowledge. God was invented to explain what our ancestors couldn't comprehend: the radiant mystery of being. The existence of the incomprehensible, however, is not a proof of god.

I disapprove of certainties, said Virgil Jones. They limit one's range of vision. Doubt is one aspect of width.