Limits Quotes - Page 5

• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  E. B. White

  Pessimistic, Complicated, Accounts

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• There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

  Donald J. Carty

  Numbers, People, Important

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• It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Rights, Criminals

  "Abortion rights forces fight bill to make harming fetus a crime" by Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. September 29, 1999.

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• The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, President, Republic

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Senior, School

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• Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

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• Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

  Rose Bird

  Majority, Minorities, Mainstream

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• But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

  Roy Moore

  Thinking, Long, Your Future

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• A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Political, Political Theory, Theory

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.283, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

  Mark Strand

  Believe, Language, Tradition

  Mark Strand (2000). “The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

  Andres Serrano

  People, Groups, Able

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• I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

  Ben Harper

  Sky, Criminals, Today

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• Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

  Thomas Gray

  Fate, Vulgar

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 122

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• This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Thinking, Dorms

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• Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

  James A. Baldwin

  Europe, Tragedy, Needs

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• Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  Sidney Hook

  Tolerance, Hook, Tolerate

  Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

  Jim Carrey

  People, Trying

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• Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Boundaries, Pleasure

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• I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

  Eminem

  Funny, Thinking, Doors

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

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• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  Maimonides

  Sage, Reason, Prophet

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.288, Moses Maimonides

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• My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

  Emo Philips

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny Love, Heart, Men

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• There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Expansion, Economy

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• The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

  Kendrick Meek

  Florida, Class, People

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