Limits Quotes - Page 21

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.

Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

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.

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

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

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.