Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

[On the Dating Handbook] 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.