Beyond Quotes

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. (Epictetus)
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. View quote
Stephen Spender
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. View quote
John Steinbeck
Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity. (William of Ockham)
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. View quote
Saul Bellow
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. View quote
John Locke
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. View quote
Mary Pickford
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? View quote
Charles de Lint
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. View quote
Tracey Ullman
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. (George Boole)
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. View quote
Charles Lindbergh