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 ~
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
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 ~
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
~By Francis Bacon ~
One finds limits by pushing them.
~By Herbert Simon ~
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
~By William S. Paley ~
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 ~
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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 can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
~By Rowan Williams ~
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 ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Power has no limits.
~By Tiberius ~
Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.
~By Bobby Heenan ~
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 ~
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
~By Andre Norton ~
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
~By Giulio Andreotti ~
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
~By Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
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 ~
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 ~
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
~By Adam Faith ~
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
~By John von Neumann ~
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 ~
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 ~
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
~By Greil Marcus ~
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
~By James Baldwin ~
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
~By Roger Mudd ~
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
~By Peter Wright ~
There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.
~By Christopher Shays ~
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
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 ~
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 ~
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
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 ~
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
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 ~
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
There are no limits, love, there are no limits.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
~By Herman Kahn ~
The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
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 ~
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 ~
While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
~By Ken Salazar ~
Limits are very important.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
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 ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
~By Buddy Ebsen ~
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
~By Elena Kagan ~
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
~By Teddy Wilson ~
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 ~
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
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 make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.
~By Stan Sakai ~
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
~By Rod Serling ~
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 ~
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 ~
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
~By Peter Jennings ~
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By Henry Ford ~
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
~By Billy Crudup ~
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 ~
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