Quotes about Limitation

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.

The cross means the acceptance of limitation on desire. Without establishing this for yourself, there can only be frustration and worse, for you simply cannot satisfy desire.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.