Quotes About Limitation

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

I've noticed that it's been difficult for you to stick with the thirty-minute time limit on playing video games. What's up?

The world is only the size of each man's head.

To begin with unlimited freedom," Dostoevsky wrote, "is to end with unlimited despotism.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Your best may not be the

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Right now, you don't have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.

But if you pay attention to creation, you realize that the divine, or whatever is the source of creation, is, above all, the highest intelligence that you can imagine. Instead of trying to tap into this all-powerful intelligence that pulsates within each of us, we opt to use our logical intellect, which is useful in certain situations, but essentially limited.

My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.