Limits Quotes - Page 41

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.

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

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.