Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.

It kind of limits what we can call the albums.

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

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

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

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

I would like to have campaign spending limits...

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them...

Know not to revere human things too much.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you