Quotes About Limitation

You cannot speak of the ocean to a well frog, nor sing of ice to a summer insect. She will not understand.

Life teaches you that you cannot attain real maturity until you are ready to accept this harsh knowledge, this limitation in yourself, and make the difficult adjustment. Either you must learn to allow someone else to meet the need, without bitterness or envy, and accept it; or somehow you must make yourself learn to meet it. If you refuse to accept the limitation in yourself, you will be unable to grow beyond this point.

Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something small there's something even smaller that wants to leap out, and outside something large there's always someting larger that wants to keep it a prisoner.

In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.

Nas fábulas se age como se quer, na realidade se faz o que se pode.

Charismatic individuals, such as Wagner, open the doors of our perceptions, transcend our limitations, and reveal mysteries unknown to us.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

The ejusdem generis canon asserts that a general phrase at the end of a list is limited to the same type of things (the generic category) that are found in the specific list.

lemme spell it out it's not an equation you're the border and i'm the nation you're talkin peace i'm under occupation so what's better? isolation? oh fuck that i need a relation a station without limitation another minute before i begin my invasion and then we can rise to the sweet occasion

La relación que caracteriza de una manera más profunda y general el sentido de nuestro ser es la que une la vida con la muerte, porque la limitación de nuestra existencia por la muerte es decisiva para la comprensión y la valoración de la vida.»

viaggi straordinari che non ha mai fatto, quelli che non potrà mai fare, che restano non scritti o chiusi in un loro segreto alfabeto sotto le palpebre, la sera, fino a quando arriva il sonno e si salpa

You must leave your imagination behind or it will do you harm.

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

People have been so attuned mentally to believe in the power of key that the majority of them even think that they need actually a key to unlock own head to find an open mind.

It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.

The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect.

nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.

All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough

After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.