Quotes About Limitation

More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I have in my head, because the original idea has always been bigger. Every time I am in the mode of creating a show, there's always some level of gravity that comes in play, either of a monetary sort, or there's a space issue.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

I believe that humans are pretty awesome but we are not capable of understanding what heaven would look like while we're alive because whatever is out there is so much bigger than we are.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

I want to finish high school, but that will be it.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

I have osteoarthritis so bad... I can walk up a hill; I just can't walk down one.

Because you don't see what can be done, you say God can do nothing—which is as much as to say there cannot be more within his scope than there is within yours! One thing is clear, that, if he saw no more than what lies within your ken, he could not be God. The very impossibility you see in the thing points to the region wherein God works.

There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable.

The moon is beautiful partly because we cannot reach it, (the sea is impressive because one can never be sure of crossing it safely. Even the pleasure one takes in a flower — and this is true even of a botanist who knows all there is to be known about the flower is dependent partly on the sense of mystery.

Cada año habrá menos palabras, así el radio de acción de la conciencia será cada vez más pequeño.

Nu mai ai voie sa ?i se scoale

Everything other than working was forbidden: walking in the streets, having fun, singing, dancing, getting together, everything was forbidden.

It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!"—as well say, "Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable," or "Because I've never died, I am immortal.

All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.

Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means.

Having never loved or been loved in that previous place, they were frozen here in a youthful state of perpetual emotional vacuity; interested only in freedom, profligacy, and high-jinks, railing against any limitation or commitment whatsoever.

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.