Limits Quotes - Page 6

• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Literature, Baseness

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

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• The First Amendment is not without limits.

  Jerry Falwell

  Firsts, First Amendment, Amendments

  "Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 10, 1997.

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• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 20 (1851)

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• Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Witty, War, Marijuana

  "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" by Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, Chapter 4, (p. 87), 2007.

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• It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

  Greil Marcus

  Struggle, Interesting, May

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

  George J. Mitchell

  Believe, People, Term Limits

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• If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, Acting, Legislature

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.13

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• Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Assuming

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• In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Style, Would Be, Want

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• The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Wisdom, Mind, Madness

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Demand

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Fear, Lying

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, People, Calming

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

  Ellen Key

  Creating, Imagination, Doe

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

  Steve Lacy

  Years, Imagination, Up To You

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• A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Careers, People

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• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Profound

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

  James Cash Penney

  Golden, Economy, Application

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• Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

  Joan Rivers

  Thank You, Country, Fashion

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• I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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• Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wise, Stupid

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• My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.

  Jeb Corliss

  Time, World, Skydiving

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• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  Dana Plato

  Energy, Would Be, Situation

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

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