Limit Quotes

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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has… — Alberto Manguel
We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because… — Lauren Child
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because… — Ron Paul
The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of… — Stanislaw Lem
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It… — Mahatma Gandhi
There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but… — Jane Hirshfield
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when… — Blaise Pascal
Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he… — Sarah Dessen
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the… — Diane Arbus
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit. — John Eldredge
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit. — Haruki Murakami
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in… — Eudora Welty
You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry. — Janice Galloway
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there… — Winston Churchill
Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to… — Pope John Paul II
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer… — Haruki Murakami
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! — Henry Miller
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another,… — Anne Rice

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