Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

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 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 precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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 kind of limits what we can call the albums.

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 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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I would like to have campaign spending limits...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

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.

Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?