Quotes About Limitation

ADESPOTICK  (ADESPO'TICK)   adj. Not absolute; not despotick.Dict.

ANGUST  (ANGU'ST)   adj.[angustus, Lat.] Narrow; strait.Dict.   ANGUSTATION  (ANGUSTA'TION)   n.s.[from angustus.]The act of making narrow; straitening; the state of being narrowed.

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

The words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

qué parte de lo que quieres se puede conseguir sin alterar las leyes del espacio-tiempo?

You can only fit so many words into a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

I don't have a driver's license (phobia).

there are some things in life a person just cant know

We can't travel beyond the edge of the universe without exceeding the speed of light, which is theoretically impossible. That's what you would expect in a simulation. You would have some sort of rule of physics to keep the simulated people from traveling beyond the edges. Here I'm assuming the universe is expanding at the same rate as the light that is traveling in all directions, so we can never catch up to it.

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

m-am gandit mult la nazuinta omului de a se intinde, de a face noi descoperiri, de a rataci incoace si incolo; pe urma, la inclinarea lui de a se supune de bunavoie ingradirii, de a pasi pe drumul obisnuintei, fara sa-i pese de ceea ce e la dreapta sau la stanga lui.

Oraya ko?up, oras? da buras? olunca, her ?ey öncesi gibidir ve zavall?l???m?zda, k?s?nt?l?l???m?zda kal?r?z ve ruhumuz s?yr?lan bir tesellinin hasretiyle yanar. (21 Haziran günü.)

Lakin, insan öz t?bi?t etibaril? o q?d?r m?hduddur ki, öz varl???n?n ?vv?lini v? ax?r?n? d?rk ed? bilmir.

Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.

From my informal surveys, it is very uncommon knowledge that the part of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

think you just like tethering goats." "Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins

Their revolvers are drawn, but they won't fire. They're just here as backdrop. The fire department is here too, as are the ETMs, but there isn't much they can do either. They know the rules. This is clearly out of their scope, and these guys are out of their league. They're basically here for crowd control. Besides, have you ever seen an ETM jump into a pool of acid to rescue two costumed teenagers? Do you even know what those guys get paid?