Quotes About Limitation

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

My capacity for happiness,' he added, 'you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

Benim mutluluk kapasitemi bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin. Hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.

One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.

O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.

All of these are labels. All of them are fine. There is nothing wrong with any one of them, until you actually believe they're true. As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing more than a thought.

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...

It's all very well to talk like that," said Mr. Rafiel. "We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

Each of us can know only a part of the whole that constitutes truth.

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

In fact Yahweh is none other than the God who says "enough." The Law he issues is meant as limitation. The Covenant he concludes symbolically seals this castration.

en esta noche en este mundo donde todo es posible salvo el poema

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Evolution stops at the neck.

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.