Limits Quotes
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For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
Eric Foner
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You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.
Satyajit Ray
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
Pablo Picasso
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We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.
Susanna Thompson
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I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.
E. Lockhart
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I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.
Kristen Stewart
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.
David Goggins
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Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit
Earl Nightingale
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Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
Louis Bonaparte
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Our common goal is to ensure that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction, ... It must be attained on the basis of the U.N. Security Council's resolution No. 1441. All other goals go beyond the limits of our interests.
Igor Ivanov
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I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.
Lewis Hamilton
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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
Charles Dickens
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Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
Camille Flammarion
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With love's light wings did I o'er–perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.
William Shakespeare
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My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.
Yaacov Agam
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
Algis Budrys
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I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond.
Serge Gainsbourg
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Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
Wolfgang Ketterle
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The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Saint Augustine
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A man who limits his interests limits his life.
Vincent Price