Limits Quotes - Page 38

• Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

  Jill Dando

  Long, Understanding, Goes On

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• There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.

  Natalie Dormer

  Emotional, Historical, Henry V

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• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Adults, Safe

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• I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Thinking, Comedian

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Ice Cream, Trying, World

  "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Kings, Understanding, Watches

  Peter Ackroyd (2005). “Shakespeare: The Biography”, Vintage

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Understanding, Enquiry

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Men, Numbers

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

  William Sealy Gosset

  Science, Giving, Would Be

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• Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Self, Order

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• Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Needs, Demand

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• The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

  Paul McCartney

  Religious, Baby, Religion

  Song: Used to Be Bad, Album: Flaming Pie, 1997

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• I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

  Richard Dooling

  Phones, Answering The Phone, Waste

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• It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

  Dario Fo

  Borders, Events, Social

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• I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Cutting, Thinking, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

  Todd Gitlin

  Thinking, Trying, Realist

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Yelling, People, Comedy

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• I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

  Clara Hughes

  Want, Ifs

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• There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

  Dennis Hastert

  Clients, Lions, Littles

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• As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

  Nikki Haley

  America, Parent, Said

  "Dealing With Obama Is ‘Hardest Part Of My Job’". Republican Convention Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Needs, Littles, Irritated

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• My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

  Nick Kroll

  Thinking, Games, Comedy

  "Q&A: Nick Kroll Tells You About His Feelings". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Voice, Culture, Common

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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