Quotes About Bounds

OLD BRANDY came to mean a taste that was eccentric, esoteric, but just within the bounds of reason.

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to experience, in the ruins of the human, the birth of something utterly new.

You have done a great working. So now he can do another in return. But high magic never comes without a price." "Why is it a great working that we shoved more than half his treasure into a tunnel?" I said, exasperated. "You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true," Tsop said.

We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast by the form of our excellent contiguity, a rigorous closeness that only rarely oversteps its bounds.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be so far outside the bounds of tradition that he must be treated differently from his predecessors.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.

The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.

No doubt a propaganda system is more effective when its doctrines are insinuated rather than asserted, when it sets the bounds for possible thought rather than simply imposing a clear and easily identifiable doctrine that one must parrot—or suffer the consequences.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Popinsh!" Sunny shrieked. "Sunny means," Violet said, "that Dr. Orwell hypnotized Klaus and caused that terrible accident, didn't she?" "Conceivably," Shirley said. "And he's being hypnotized again, right now, isn't he?" Violet asked. "It's within the bounds of the imagination," Shirley said.

Our mistake is to confuse our limitations with the bounds of possibility . . .

Amortization allows for occasional operations to have actual costs that exceed their amortized costs. Such operations are called expensive. Operations whose actual costs are less than their amortized costs are called cheap. Expensive operations decrease the accumulated savings and cheap operations increase it. The key to proving amortized bounds is to show that expensive operations occur only when the accumulated savings are sufficient to cover the remaining cost.

He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

If with kindly generosity One merely has the wish to soothe The aching heads of other beings, Such merit knows no bounds.

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.