Limits Quotes - Page 40

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

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.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

The process of giving is without limits.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

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.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

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.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

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

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.