Quotes about Limit

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

The second reason there are such tremendous benefits to being number one is a little more subtle. Being at the top matters because there's room at the top for only a few.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or "limited") reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

I never make the same mistake twice. I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones. Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.