Quotes About Limitation

Bombentrichter und Gräben haben einen engen Horizont. Er reicht nicht weiter als einen Handgranatenwurf.

Such a thing is not possible." I peered quietly at him. "Nothing is possible, sir, until it is made so.

English movies releasing in India should be confined to a certain number.

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.

You don't go hunting for a deer and shoot 50 rounds.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.

My impression is that the NBA always precluded anything else.

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

For fifteen years, the Fabers had nurtured the hope that Leslie could overcome her disabilities, but the new evaluation suggested that her development would be limited and that she would require some form of supervision for the rest of her life.

Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

Una delle principali cause della miseria delle scienze sta, molto spesso, nella loro presunzione di essere ricche. Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

Bad tactics and the suicide of the French aristocracy: For France the 18th century was a period of aristocratic reaction, so badly handled, however, that instead of resulting in the limitation of the monarchial Power, it ended by destroying monarchy and aristocracy alike, and by exalting a Power which was far more absolute than that of the "Great King" had ever been.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

You can't see the whole sky from one window.