Limited Quotes
1520 quotes by 1224 authors
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much…
— Paul Auster
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being,…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an…
— Charles Babbage
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
— Annie Besant
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
— John Bolton
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
— Edmund Burke
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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and…
— Cesar Chavez
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We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need…
— Dick Cheney
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British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
— Lee Child
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For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
— Noam Chomsky
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The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
— Deepak Chopra
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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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