Limits Quotes
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putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
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Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can’t help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.
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Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.
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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.
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.
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The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where African-Americans could live in the North still exist today. And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
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The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
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Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority.
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This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.
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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.
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
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It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
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The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
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In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.
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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
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My limits are what are comfortable to me. We are all individuals and have different views and perspectives, and I do what I feel is most comfortable and OK for me.
