(1604 quotes found)
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
Frederick Douglass
“The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps limits to how much he could let himself change.”
Neil Gaiman
“"A good man always knows his limitations”
Clint Eastwood
“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”
Jean Cocteau
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
Jamie Paolinetti
“The law always limits every power it gives.”
David Hume
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
Alan Greenspan
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
Goethe
