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Quotes About Limitation

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Destiny is not what limits her.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Das schimmste aber, wenn man ein Gefängnis aus unsichtbaren Mauern bewohnt, ist, dass man sich der Schranken nicht bewusst wird, die den Horizont versperren.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Our hold on the future is limited; the movement of expansion of existence requires that we strive at every moment to amplify it; but where it stops our future stops too; beyond, there is nothing more because nothing more is disclosed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
~ Simone Weil
On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.
~ Simone Weil
It is better to accept the limit, to contemplate it and savour all its bitterness.
~ Simone Weil
Enough Is as Good as a feast.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You can't have everything [...] because where on earth would you put it?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Still the king, the master of all things? No more: here your power ends.
~ Sophocles
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.
~ Gio Gonzalez
In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.
~ J.R. Ward
In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.
~ James R. Swartz
People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.
~ Samuel Beckett, Molloy
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
~ Langston Hughes
Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.
~ Jinnul Jr.
Your only limitation in life is the limitation of your mind.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?
~ Jessica-Lynn Barbour, Willow
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
~ John Moffat
Use as much water as you need but not a drop more.
~ John Palmer