Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Infinity has its limits.
Helene Lagerberg
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
Corazon Aquino
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Joshua Logan
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace Mann
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Sir Francis Bacon
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There were 85 of those signs from the city limits of Florence to Burlington. That's utterly ridiculous.
Ted Bushelman
[Colon] should have known the limits. That's why he is a police officer.
Leticia Valle
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
We've been asked to look at limits on gray snapper, but we're not so inclined to do that. (Gray snapper) are very limited by temperature; a cold winter will eventually knock them back.
Larry Mckinney
The smaller surface area limits oxygen. Oxygen can enter only on the surface.
Derrick Johnson
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
Nolan Ryan
This injury limits her function, making it impossible for her to jump, land and skate effectively and without risk of serious injury.
Jim Moeller
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Malcolm Gladwell
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train.
Greil Marcus
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.
Tom Lasorda
It's always something new he gets an idea and we try to execute it the best we can but he's always pushing the limits of glass making.
Joe Decamp
I checked some at the Narrows on Monday, and they're getting them right off the beach down there. I also know of two guys who got two limits Monday right out in front of the (Point Defiance) boathouse.
Tom Mathews
Term limits did have an effect. There was one less chair for them.
Brian Rothenberg
Ohio has some of the highest campaign contribution limits in the country.
Keary Mccarthy
We are catching fish, catching limits, but they have been running late. Everything is a little late. Normally by Valentine's they have kicked in big time, but we are having to hunt them.
Jane Gallenbach
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Teilhard De Chardin
There is an attitude that it's this no-holds-barred, test-your-limits situation. Unfortunately, this culture has arisen around it to create a problem.
Makeda Kefale
This investigation is not limited to the city limits of Lake City.
Sheriff Kenney Boone
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
It's more direct; no more beating around the bush. It looks like they're reaching the limits of their patience.
Marshall Gittler
It wasn't the intent of term limits to make things run smoothly at the Capitol. It was the intent to make things run smoothly in citizens' lives.
Pat Anderson
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Rod Serling
We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.
Jim Geringer
It causes more congestion at drop-off, and it limits the options for routes in and out of there.
Terry Locke
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean jacques Rousseau
We defend the student's right to express their own opinions but there have to be some limits on it. And our feeling is that this crossed the boundaries.
Paul Bennett
We didn't mail notices just to businesses inside the city limits because there are others that may be affected by the tax if they currently lease in the city or possibly will in the future.
Chris King
We only put limits on it because we have a limited physical space. It's usually floor to ceiling art.
Brandon Reintjes
Companies have reached the limits of what they can do with their work forces. They have to hire more workers.
Nigel Gault
Power has no limits.
Tiberius Caesar
Whether or not one agrees with that, that's where he is coming from. What will have to happen, is the issue will have to be studied. I think in the long run we will see speed limits down here.
Bruce Dungan
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
James Anthony Froude
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
There has to be a reasonable budget policy that limits the countries in their spending.
Klaus Liebscher
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
It isn't necessary to Mt. Hood Meadows. It's already the biggest ski area on the mountain. The demands are growing, but the mountain is not growing, and we have to learn to live with limits.
Kate Mccarthy
Maintaining good control of glucose and hypertension [high blood pressure] limits morbidity and mortality.
Stuart Weiss
I'm through excepting limits, 'Cuz someone says they're so,Some things I cannot change, but till I try, I'll never know!
Stephen Schwartz
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The only effective solution is to make them off-limits.
Ruth Frechman
Once we receive additional funding, we'll branch out a bit beyond the city limits, but it is unlikely we'll ever be able to afford to provide fiber to the entire county.
Jane Howard
Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.
Gerhard Kocher
I would go higher if I could, but the state limits us.
Gerald E. Connolly
The media has everyone crazy. We haven't had any limits placed on how much gasoline we can get. If everyone would just stick to their normal buying habits, we'd be fine.
John Waller
Look, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around.
Charles Kennedy
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
Tom Morris
We make an estimate on what we think the new loan limit will be and base it on that. If we can gauge where the new loan limits will be we can pass on the benefits to consumers.
Paul Thomas
We've been practicing his kicking all week. But he was about at his limits.
Todd Schumacher
There hasn't been an awful lot of transmission infrastructure built in the state since the 1970s. We have a very constrained system that's really operating at its limits.
Jackie Olson
We told her the Internet is definitely off-limits. We took away her phone as well, now that we know what she was doing with it.
Lisa Whiting
All these kids were just so gender non-conforming and testing the limits. I asked them, 'How do you do this in Iowa?' But kids always get there about 10 years before everyone else.
Riki Wilchins
Last year, they were taking out limits of trout into June.
Chuck Fustish
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit, the speed limit's still 65.
Neil Sheehan
...There are no limits where they choose to travel.
Beth Holloway Twitty
It's an exceptional thing that shows how far we can push the limits, and what human beings can go through to be rebuilt.
Thomas Fishbein
Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.
John Gottman
I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
Madalyn Murray O'hair
It limits what you can do. I'm all for dressing up.
Miles Siggins
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Langer
We were trying to see what the limits were on guys. That's one of the things you do. He's been in good shape.
Vic Koenning
Requiring a full-face ballot limits the number of machines that could be used for the disabled.
Robert Poulin
Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?
John Burnett
The last decade was dominated by Bill Owens. The Owens era is ending because of term limits.
Floyd Ciruli
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Dale Spender
It is too early in the study to be making any final decisions about how the results of this study may influence deer hunting seasons and bag limits.
Jerry Feaser
He assumed there were no further limits in place because the governor went to court and invalidated the contribution limits on candidate controlled ballot measure committees.
Lance Olson
Our resources are stretched to the limit, and in some cases, beyond the limits.
Chris Paulitz
There are no limits as to the possibilities that we will ask for and certainly the term grand jury falls into that category.
Commissioner Nancy Robinson
Without any limits on the government's eminent domain power, every home, church, or corner store.
Scott Bullock
The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written.
Dr. John Marshall
It was a delicate act: Celebrating debate and criticism while declaring that a key element of that debate -- whether the administration exaggerated prewar intelligence about Iraq -- is off-limits. But Cheney achieved it with matter-of-fact indignation.
Dana Milbank
I have no doubt that he has the ability and the drive to do whatever he wants to do in this game. I would never put any limits on what he can accomplish.
Brian Voyles
This needs to be addressed. There is good access to that area now, there is the potential to bring infrastructure, and it is close to city limits.
Bobby Lieb
Aside from the issue of catch limits, [the bill] is pretty non-controversial.
Lee Crockett
Because of our power, they like to test the limits of that power.
Gary Schmitt
Texas is a place where there are no limits on individual or political committee contributions and donations can and do exceed $100,000.
Alan Miller
There are basically no limits that can be placed on the introduction of mitigating evidence.
Jeff Ellis
There have definitely been a few times that I've gone too far, but I think for the most part I'm successful in keeping with my limits.
Jonathan Benedict
If the crisis continues for too long and the winter is tough, then we have our limits too.
Burckhard Bergmann
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Irma Kurtz
These are desktops without limits.
Jerry Chen
Part of the reality is it's a much longer campaign, but everybody is faced with the same campaign limits as if it was a 36-day campaign.
Mark Marissen
While the state can provide the base, it's clear that there are limits.
Mark Rosenberg
That's why they have completed all preparations to make the former BNP international affairs secretary and former chief justice the chief adviser of the caretaker government extending the age limits of the judges of the Supreme Court.
Abdur Razzak
You can't defame someone, or just walk naked on the streets because freedom of expression has limits.
Hussam Ayloush
Berlusconi's goal is to change the equal-access law. If he can remove the limits on the electronic media, he can use his much greater wealth to his advantage.
James Walston
We think that based on current legal limits, based on what the European Union study is going to come up with, it will be possible for us to have a conversation, a dialogue with Bolivia about what a legal harvest could be.
Thomas Shannon
Lifting the contribution limits, I just can't do that. It's a pretty deeply held belief of mine.
Sen. Joan Bray
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
Nuremberg introduced the concept that individuals and states were subject to international law, including limits on sovereignty.
Henry King
One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon
Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
Ahmed Akkari
He's just an incredible athlete. He enjoys testing himself and pushing his limits. He places a high value on that.
Patrick Dean
By setting binding limits, the bill will make the governor's targets real.
Devra Wang
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.
Alan Keyes
I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.
Stan Sakai
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Andre Norton
A careful balance of 'bright-line' rules establishing clear limits, coupled with greater disclosure, seems both warranted and prudent.
Arthur Levitt
There are limits to the number of residency programs you can have in a particular field. Doctors in residency are cheap labor and a lot of those programs are already established back East.
Dr. Mike Hutchins
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
Admiral Stockdale challenged the human limits of moral courage, physical endurance and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious as a legendary beacon for all to follow.
Vern Clark
It's a program that inspires them to reach their limits and to expand to their God-given abilities. I know it seems like we're studying all the time, but we have a blast.
Teresa Luna
It's their broadcast in the final analysis, ... I've always taken the position it's our job to make the program as attractive to the audience as we could possibly make it, but there are limits. You don't bring on dancing girls.
Ted Koppel
We now know, and those are all the problems that we intend to fix with better communication plans. The draw exceeded everyone's limits.
Connie Cochran
I will be meeting later today with a private developer to see if we can build affordable housing on 14 acres within city limits.
Jack Quinlivan
It's important to be involved with the life of young preteens and to set firm limits for them, while fostering independence, which is challenging.
Barbara Brownell
With the Open Sky, there will be no limits for airlines, whether limits of nationality, of flight origin, of passenger capacity or limits of airports.
Karim Ghellab
From a drive perspective, what limits adoption of higher capacity drives is the need for a certain level of performance per gigabyte.
Gianna Dagiau
New permit limits will ... allow us to keep the units available more often. This is important to ensure reliability of the electrical transmission grid in the area.
Charlie Schrock
It's hard because it really limits what you can do.
Steve Perry
They will need to permanently remove their dogs from the city limits.
Cheryl Conway
Teams don't know he has NBA range. Ryan's got no limits for distance on his 3's.
Michael Pyle
There will be seven troops with boys ages six to 18 and adults helping as well. We hope to be able to get bags to most of the homes in the city limits.
Judy Burns
It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are going to be.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
This is a loophole that needs to be closed. Their ought to be full sunshine and limits on these activities.
Warren Tompkins
Because of all the developments in the area, it is important to lower the limits.
John Francis
This does not ban cigarettes, this limits public exposure to secondhand smoke.
Barry Groveman
I'd be cautious about going to places that advertise a lot. It's very expensive to advertise and they may have to do a lot of surgery to pay for it and push the limits on candidacy.
Dr. Robert Maloney
Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands and potential frustrations.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We knew damn right they were positive, but we couldn't get it within the right limits to actually legally confirm it.
Thomas Dobie
Growth brings money, but growth never comes without cost. A surge in population can also stretch the limits of our infrastructure.
Scott Huffmon
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
Lily Langtry
Any diet that limits your food choices will help you lose weight.
Elisa Zied
It was hard, tiring. It was hot. We were getting to our limits out there.
Ethan Dickson
It limits the fuel load down there. We should be able to keep it under control.
Ed Laidlaw
The marketing point is that it lets kids do something that's forbidden. Kids are all about limits and what they can and can't do.
Erik Gordon
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
The only thing that's off limits is stuff that bores us.
Ellis Henican
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