Limits Quotes

• Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Women
  • Power
  • Birth

• I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Dating

• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Language
  • Limits
  • Cognition

• A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Ends
  • Cities
  • Land

• 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.

  

  David Foreman
  • World
  • Humans
  • Activity

• Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover that even those paradigms have their limits. There are a million Hindus in this country, and over three million Buddhists, and neither of those communities would be called Abrahamic. But they live in America, too, and we have to have a paradigm that includes them.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Discover
  • Jews
  • Communities

• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Faith
  • Limits
  • Guide

• Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

  

  Anthony de Jasay
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Mistrust

• There are already laws prohibiting the promotion of hatred and we are now considering new laws to establish limits on the use of the Internet and other forms of communication in a way that might be harmful to us all.

  

  Allan Rock
  • Internet
  • Laws
  • Limits

• You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Willing
  • Modesty
  • Controlled

• People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • People
  • Change
  • Limits

• The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Limits
  • Resourceful

• If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Limits

• In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

  

  Jimmy Webb
  • Limits
  • Pushing
  • Climbing

• Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

  

  Wilhelm Frick
  • Control
  • Years
  • Genius

• I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Life
  • Important
  • Matter

• Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Limits
  • Prejudice
  • Assimilation

• If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

  

  Davone Bess
  • People
  • Limits
  • Productive

• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  

  Calvin Jillson
  • House
  • Ability
  • Congress

• You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Order
  • Moderation
  • Modest

• The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Home
  • Presence
  • Grace Of God

• In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

  

  Arthur Danto
  • Live
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Able
  • Capable
  • Ridiculous

• The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?

  

  James Fallows
  • Power
  • Military
  • Vietnam

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