Quotes About Limitation

vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.

the window. 'But that isn't possible.

YOU MUST LEAVE ROOM in your worldview for mystery—accepting the limitations of your understanding and knowledge. I will never be predictable or controllable, but I am trustworthy. When adversity strikes you or your loved ones, remember the words of Job: The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.

Your human love is ever so limited, full of flaws and manipulation.

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

Q: Why is there no Disneyland in China? A: No one's tall enough to go on the rides.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

There's not enough time to say what I feel.

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Mein Herz ist voller Dankbarkeit, aber meine Armut an deutschen Worten zwingt mich zu großer Sparsamkeit des Ausdruckes.