Limits Quotes · Page 70

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

— Elizabeth Drew

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since…

— Sathya Sai Baba

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born…

— Greil Marcus

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no…

— Ernest Hemingway

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

— Ron Paul

There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret?…

— Sun Yang

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

— Big Sean

For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a…

— Susanna Kaysen

Our insecurities and the limitations we set for ourselves, only paralyze us from unlimited success and achieving our goals.

— Rashida Rowe

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to…

— Billy Collins

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

— Seth Godin

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer…

— Chip Kidd

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising…

— Marco Rubio

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

— Marilyn Monroe

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had…

— Ayn Rand

Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are…

— Barack Obama

The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected…

— Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on…

— Michelle Obama

I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.…

— Adolf Hitler

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was…

— Gillian Flynn

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

— Homer

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's no limit to greatness, just believe in yourself and nothing will be impossible for you to achieve.

— Blaze Olamiday

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

— Constance Baker Motley

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to…

— Daphne Bavelier

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for…

— Terence McKenna

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

— Vilfredo Pareto

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence…

— Enrico Fermi

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use.…

— Norman Vincent Peale

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

— Francis Bacon

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce…

— John Marshall

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the…

— Gever Tulley

There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The…

— Stefan Zweig

Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering,…

— Sulak Sivaraksa