Limits Quotes
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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 -
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry
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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 -
One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be ethical.
Elizabeth Bear -
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
Herbert Spencer -
Under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
Charlie Jane Anders -
I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.
Guy Oseary -
The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey.
Christina Aguilera
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
William Butler Yeats -
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner -
Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.
Carver Mead -
Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.
Fever Ray -
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
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I don't know where the limits of her range are. I certainly didn't find them.
Wesley Earl Craven -
I just love working with people who consistently push the limits, who try to be different and expand the talent that they have.
Alex Aiono -
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Arthur Desmond -
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
Seneca the Younger -
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
Walt Whitman -
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Nick Xenophon -
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.
Misha Collins -
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 -
To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.
Charles de Foucauld