Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

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

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.