Limits Quotes

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I just want to go as far as I can take myself. No limits.

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

The people who put limits on your abilities, goals, or dreams, may not be the people you want to associate yourself with.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us... God yearns for us.