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Quotes About Limitation

Weakness thrives where strength can go no further.
~ John de Ruiter
Hee that hath all can have no more
~ John Donne
How can finite grasp infinity
~ John Dryden
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
~ Freya Stark
I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.
~ Joel Courtney
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
~ John C. Maxwell
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Every choice is limited. That's life.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
~ Adrienne Rich
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
~ Anne Tyler
Every life is finite, Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
That inverted Bowl we call The Sky,Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The Star Trek conception is a bottle, and into that bottle you can pour different vintages, but you're not allowed to change the shape of the bottle.
~ Edward Gross
The new competition is probably keenest in the food industries because we have a very real limitation on what we can consume—in spite of higher incomes and higher living standards, we cannot eat more than we can eat.
~ Edward L. Bernays
And yet...somehow Sol had the vague feeling that there were certain horrors this boy would not commit. In Sol Nazerman's eyes, this was a great deal; there were few people to whom he attributed even that limitation of evil.
~ Edward Lewis Wallant
The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
~ Edward Young
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive of it.
~ Edwin Balmer
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Limited-thinking thinkers think, limited and have no ability, to approach beyond that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Partnership, in whatever way, restricts and limits your independence.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
El mundo es un muro de piedra -pensaba-, y han puesto las piedras tan juntas que no hay ni una sola rendija por la que uno pueda entrar.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa