Limits Quotes
2452 quotes by 1765 authors
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
— Mark Twain
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I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy…
— Carrie Underwood
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will…
— David Viscott
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Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often…
— Andrew Weil
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The…
— Sanford I. Weill
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we…
— Rowan Williams
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A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and…
— Rowan Williams
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The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
— Naomi Wolf
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that…
— Naomi Wolf
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive…
— George Edward Woodberry
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We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of…
— Henry B. Eyring
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time.…
— Charles de Lint
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar Wilde
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or…
— Richard Bach
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
— Terry Pratchett
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