Limits Quotes · Page 63

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

— Gertrude Stein

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material…

— Salvatore Ferragamo

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

— Leslie Jamison

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

— Lance Armstrong

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

— Emile M. Cioran

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that…

— George Will

Listen for the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. And then? Well, the sky is the limit!

— Norman Vincent Peale

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to…

— Ziggy Marley

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our…

— Lynn Margulis

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said…

— Aimee Mann

Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only…

— Mort Sahl

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball…

— Gene Logsdon

What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that…

— Ralph Nader

In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we…

— John F Walvoord

Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how…

— Yasmin Le Bon

Trump does not gain strength with every attempt to place limits on his behavior. Accountability does not jolt him into political action.…

— Jamelle Bouie

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn…

— Albert Einstein

British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological…

— William McDonough

“For generations, four minutes was thought to represent an intrinsic physiological limit, as if muscles could inherently not be made to move…

— David Ewalt

Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies,…

— James Clerk Maxwell

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from…

— Fran Lebowitz

Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings…

— Gary Snyder

Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared…

— Bobby Jones

I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

— Garth Greenwell

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

— Paul Ricoeur

There are absolutely no limits with podcasting because you can do anything you want.

— Paul F. Tompkins

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

— Sylvia Earle

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

— Jacques Barzun

“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

— Wendell Berry

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

— Sparky Anderson

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible Pindar, Pythian iii”

— Albert Camus

Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza…

— Gene Simmons

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no…

— Sam Walton

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

— William S. Paley

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

— Helen Keller