It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.
~By Rose E. Bird ~
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
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 ~
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
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 ~
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 ~
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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 ~
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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 ~
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
~By Mark Strand ~
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 ~
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
~By Andre Norton ~
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
~By Bill Wyman ~
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
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 ~
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
~By Leon Kass ~
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 ~
I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.
~By Stan Sakai ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
~By Rod Serling ~
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
~By Sidney Hook ~
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 ~
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
~By Billy Crudup ~
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
~By Edmund Burke ~
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
~By Vincent Price ~
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 ~
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
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 ~
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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
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 ~
One finds limits by pushing them.
~By Herbert Simon ~
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 ~
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 ~
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Freedom without limits is just a word.
~By Terry Prachett ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
~By Teddy Wilson ~
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 ~
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
~By Arthur Golden ~
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
~By Jack Kemp ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
There are no limits, love, there are no limits.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.
~By Jim Geringer ~
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 ~
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By Henry Ford ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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'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 ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
~By Peter Jennings ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
~By Mike Lowry ~
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 ~
If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
~By Russell Pearce ~
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
~By David Gill ~
It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
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