Limits Quotes

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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. — Isaac Asimov
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world â€“ and a type of being â€“ that… — Scarlett Thomas
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary! — Gertrude Stein
No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of… — Jacques Ellul
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of… — Pope John Paul II
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. — William P. Young
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
There is no limit to desire but desire's needs. — John Gardner
I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to… — Cristiano Ronaldo
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others — Jacqueline Carey
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. — Murray Rothbard
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible. — Terry Pratchett
You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to… — William P. Young
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only… — Haruki Murakami
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve. — Scott Adams

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