Quotes about Limits

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
-Mark Twain

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"Infinity has its limits."
-Helene Lagerberg

"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."
-Corazon Aquino

"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."
-Joshua Logan

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."
-Horace Mann

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
-Ronald Reagan

"There were 85 of those signs from the city limits of Florence to Burlington. That's utterly ridiculous."
-Ted Bushelman

"[Colon] should have known the limits. That's why he is a police officer."
-Leticia Valle

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
-Bertrand Russell

"We've been asked to look at limits on gray snapper, but we're not so inclined to do that. (Gray snapper) are very limited by temperature; a cold winter will eventually knock them back."
-Larry Mckinney

"The smaller surface area limits oxygen. Oxygen can enter only on the surface."
-Derrick Johnson

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

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."
-Malcolm Gladwell

"Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train."
-Greil Marcus

"It's always something new he gets an idea and we try to execute it the best we can but he's always pushing the limits of glass making."
-Joe Decamp

"Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases."
-Tom Lasorda

"I checked some at the Narrows on Monday, and they're getting them right off the beach down there. I also know of two guys who got two limits Monday right out in front of the (Point Defiance) boathouse."
-Tom Mathews

"This injury limits her function, making it impossible for her to jump, land and skate effectively and without risk of serious injury."
-Jim Moeller

"It really limits the ability of the city to improve parks. We don't think that was the intent of the original amendment."
-Bob Woods

"Ohio has some of the highest campaign contribution limits in the country."
-Keary Mccarthy

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
-Teilhard De Chardin

"Make sure you set high enough limits for your property."
-Stan Loar

"There is an attitude that it's this no-holds-barred, test-your-limits situation. Unfortunately, this culture has arisen around it to create a problem."
-Makeda Kefale

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke