Quotes About Limitation

She had this one limitation, his darling Lois; she couldn't look on her own eyes, had no idea what she was, resented almost his attention being so constantly fixed on something she wasn't aware of.

I did everything I could." Tears scalded Alienor's eyes. "But it was not enough.

Non esiste una parola peggiore di "potenziale". È la storia di tutte le cose che non saranno mai

What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ...

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all.

Mijn stelling is dat alle vooruitgang voortkomt uit beperking.

It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit.

Ama yaln?zca çok az ÅŸey biliyorum; bir uçuruma bakm?? ve dehÅŸet içinde bak??lar?n? kaç?rm?? bir gezgin gibiyim.

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

Neither matter, nor energy, nor anything capable of being used as a signal can travel faster than the speed of light. This limitation of the speed signalling to 299,796 kilometres a second seems a rather arbitrary decree of Nature.

A menudo —dijo— la derrota llega cuando uno se siente inclinado a hacer sólo lo que puede.

Cuanto más poder se alcanza, más limitada es la ocasión de ejercerlo. Gaspar de Guzmán, conde de Olivares

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

She learned from the passport office that she would need her husband's permission in order to leave the country with the baby, and her father's permission to leave at all. To stem the flow of young Tunisians to Syria, the government had started imposing often arbitrary travel restrictions on citizens under thirty-five. The cost of the journey, the air tickets alone, amounted to more than she had.

We shan't ever be free again

Man trying to understand God is like a toy trying to understand man.

When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going."

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a man's estate; and governed with such regard, as it be within his compass; and not subject to deceit and abuse of servants; and ordered to the best show, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad.

For government; let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some counsel; and let them have commission to exercise martial laws, with some limitation. And above all, let men make that profit, of being in the wilderness, as they have God always, and his service, before their eyes.