All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.
~By James Monroe ~
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
~By Rudolf Virchow ~
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
~By Suze Orman ~
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
~By Greil Marcus ~
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
~By Bill Wyman ~
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
~By Nigel Kennedy ~
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
~By Peter Jennings ~
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
~By Billy Crudup ~
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
~By Uma Thurman ~
I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By Henry Ford ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
There are no limits, love, there are no limits.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
~By Diana Cooper ~
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
~By Sidney Hook ~
The law always limits every power it gives.
~By David Hume ~
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
~By Victor Hugo ~
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
~By Arthur Golden ~
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
~By Robert Toombs ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
~By Milan Kundera ~
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.
~By Alan Keyes ~
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
~By Andrew Johnson ~
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
~By Mike Lowry ~
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
~By Dorothy Dunnett ~
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
~By William Scranton ~
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
~By W. Eugene Smith ~
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
~By James Baldwin ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.
~By Jim Costa ~
Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
~By Otto Schily ~
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
~By Compay Segundo ~
The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
~By Emma Caulfield ~
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
~By Jack Kemp ~
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
~By Mary Garden ~
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
~By Wally Lamb ~
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~By Thomas Merton ~
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
~By Vincent Price ~
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.
~By Sean Bean ~
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
The First Amendment is not without limits.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
~By Dan Marino ~
In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
~By Piers Corbyn ~
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
~By Lech Walesa ~
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
~By Giulio Andreotti ~
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
~By Greil Marcus ~
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 the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
~By Rowan Williams ~
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