Limiting Quotes

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John Stuart Mill)
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. View quote
Albert Einstein
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. View quote
Salvador Dalí
The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. View quote
Max Born
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. View quote
Quentin Crisp
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. (Brian Ferneyhough)
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it. View quote
Kip Winger
If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect? View quote
Ted Kennedy
I gave up on this stuff. I gave up on my species and ... I gave up on my countrymen. Because I think we squandered great gifts. I think humans were given great great gifts: walking upright, binocular vision, opposable thumb, large brain ... We grew. We had great gifts, and we gave it all up for both money and God ... We gave it all up to superstition, primitive superstition, primitive shit ... Invisible man in the sky, looking down, keeping track of what we do, make sure we don't do the wrong thing, if we do, he puts us in hell, where we burn forever. That kind of shit is very limiting for this brain we have. So we keep ourselves limited. And then we want a toy and a gizmo and gold and we want shiny things, and we want something to plug in that will make big big big things for us... And all that shit is nothing! It's nothing. View quote
George Carlin
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good. View quote
Henry Gantt
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life. View quote
Reese Witherspoon
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. View quote
Frank Herbert
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems. View quote
Frank Herbert
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. (Helen Fisher)
No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health. View quote
Joel Fuhrman
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected. View quote
Emeli Sande