Limit Quotes - page 2

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. (Dolly Parton)
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once-there has to be a limit. View quote
Edward Said
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. View quote
Stephen Harper
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. View quote
Roger Ebert
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself. View quote
Emo Philips
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. View quote
Richard Bach
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. View quote
Richard Bach
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. View quote
Konrad Adenauer
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. View quote
Marcus Garvey
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. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. View quote
George Sand
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. View quote
Mark Twain
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
Louis L'Amour
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. View quote
Mac Thornberry
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. View quote
Ayrton Senna
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's. (Ayrton Senna)
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end... View quote
Maimonides
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always. View quote
Jacques Derrida