Limits Quotes
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
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Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.
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We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
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So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
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The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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In the network's mind there are no limits.
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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
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Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."
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Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
