Quotes with limits

Quotes 61 till 80 of 80.

  • Les Brown The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ben Shapiro The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Rudolf Virchow The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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  • Bernard Tschumi The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bruce Lee There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
    As quoted in The Art of Expressing the Human Body (1998)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Blaise Pascal We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Golden What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Henry Miller 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.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Orwell Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • Marsha Sinetar You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • George L. Jackson Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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