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 ~
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
~By Rod Serling ~
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
~By Giulio Andreotti ~
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
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 ~
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 ~
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
~By Vincent Price ~
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 ~
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 ~
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
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 ~
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 ~
Freedom without limits is just a word.
~By Terry Prachett ~
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
~By Peter Jennings ~
I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
~By Bill Wyman ~
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
~By Teddy Wilson ~
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
~By William S. Paley ~
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
~By Wally Lamb ~
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
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 ~
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
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 ~
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
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 ~
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 political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
~By Bruce Lee ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
~By George Jackson ~
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Limits are very important.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
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 ~
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
~By Piers Corbyn ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
~By Beau Bridges ~
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 ~
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every man takes the limits of his 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 ~
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 ~
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
~By Leon Kass ~
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 ~
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 ~
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
~By Judith Krantz ~
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 ~
Power has no limits.
~By Tiberius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
~By Rudolf Virchow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
~By David Gill ~
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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
~By Ann Beattie ~
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
~By Andre Norton ~
I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
~By Craig Benson ~
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
~By Edward Sapir ~
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