Limits Quotes
2452 quotes by 1765 authors
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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
— Mark Twain
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I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to…
— Mitch Albom
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At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The…
— Richard Bach
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Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than…
— Richard Bach
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
— Walt Whitman
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
— John Kennedy Toole
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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
— Richard Bach
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For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,…
— Ralph Ellison
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why…
— Marcus Aurelius
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This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as…
— Rod Serling
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This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must…
— Frederick Douglass
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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
— Leo Buscaglia
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable…
— Marjane Satrapi
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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and…
— Wendell Berry
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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