Limits Quotations

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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.

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.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

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.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

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.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

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.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

I'm married, and my wife has set out very limited Xbox limits. But if I had my druthers, I'd be playing all the time and never see any of my friends or do any work.

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.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

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.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

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.

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

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.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

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.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

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.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself,

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

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.

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.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

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.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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.