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Quotes About Limitation

Ya bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.. Ya anlat?labilecek bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.
~ Georges Perec
Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.
~ Georges Perec
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
~ Carlton Cuse
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't want to play till I'm 40.
~ Ed Reed
I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.
~ Carl Froch
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
~ Francoise Sagan
I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's kind of limiting in a way.
~ MF Doom
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
~ John Bach
There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
~ Nigel Lawson
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~ Anna Freud
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
~ Stephan Pastis
I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
~ Mike O'Malley
I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.
~ Ben Zobrist
Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
~ Al Jourgensen
To be honest, I really can't lie on the beach for more than an hour.
~ Nirmal Purja
I can't even touch my toes!
~ Tom Holland
It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
~ Herodotus
We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.
~ Alex Zanardi
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
~ Ralph Bakshi
Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.
~ Sarah Kay
I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.
~ Sarah Manguso
The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.
~ Sarah Micklem