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 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 ~
There are no limits, love, there are no limits.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
The First Amendment is not without limits.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
~By George Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
~By Piers Corbyn ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
~By Rod Serling ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
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 ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
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 ~
Power has no limits.
~By Tiberius ~
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 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 ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
~By Peter Jennings ~
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 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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
~By Roger Mudd ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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 ~
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
~By Judith Krantz ~
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 ~
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
~By Jack Kemp ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
~By Dario Fo ~
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 ~
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
~By Arthur Golden ~
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
~By William S. Paley ~
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 ~
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
~By Ann Beattie ~
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 ~
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
~By Teddy Wilson ~
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Limits are very important.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
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 ~
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
~By Robert Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The law always limits every power it gives.
~By David Hume ~
I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
~By Craig Benson ~
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
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 ~
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
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 ~
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
~By Edmund Burke ~
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
~By David Gill ~
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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 ~
Freedom without limits is just a word.
~By Terry Prachett ~
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 ~
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
~By Greil Marcus ~
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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 ~
Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.
~By Bobby Heenan ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
~By Wally Lamb ~
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 ~
We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.
~By Jim Geringer ~
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
~By Rudolf Virchow ~
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
~By Henry Ford ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One finds limits by pushing them.
~By Herbert Simon ~
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 ~
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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