Quotes About Limitation

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students?' asked Ader. 'We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

I would if I could …I think… but I can't …she. ..I… have made sure of that

Raoul, you shall not pass!

In my life I've discovered that if I cling to the notion that something's not possible, I'm arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible.

Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

There was no delivering himself from his cage, however;

thinking of its wings and never flying.

You do what you can--can't do much more than that.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.

There is no greater threat to progress than the phrase, 'That's impossible.'

Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.

The entertainment business can't thrive without putting you in a box.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

Being asked to carry a major show with the restrictions that are thrown on you is very limiting. I'd rather hit it hard, do it right, and walk away.

You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.