Quotes About Limitation

The more we dig this world, the more prisoners we become

If anyone tells you that something can't be done, they're correct, but it only pertains to them.

Some say sky is the limit but I say your assignment is the limit

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare forse cinque fra uomini e donne, dieci magari, talvolta financo quindici. E anche questo solo assai di rado. Ma se uno arriva e mi dice che ama tutto il Terzo mondo, o ama l'America Latina, o ama il sesso femminile, quello non è amore ma retorica. Pura demagogia. Slogan. Non siamo nati per amare più di una manciata di persone.

I am like a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants.

But I am not free. I am incapable of destruction.

There is no amount of MORE that can ever satisfy.

Did you say five hundred twenty-two people? Um-hum. I'll kick in some extra cash, if you're running low. Cash isn't a problem. Space is. I don't need money. I need Shea Stadium.

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

You have the right not to take on a responsibility for an impossible situation

It is this acute awareness of transience and limitation that constitutes mild depression.

True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.

Like the firefly trying to match the brilliance of the stars, I had let the limits of my knowledge rule me. Man cannot change the movement of the planets with the sweep of his hands. Every man is guided by a force that is individual and unfathomable. Man can heal, but a little. Man can aid self-discovery, but only a little. No man is the master of another man's destiny. For man is no God. And fireflies are not stars.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.

I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.