(1602 quotes found)
“The notion of political correctness declares certain topics, certain expressions, even certain gestures, off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.”
George Bush
“It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years”
John von Neumann
“It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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
“Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”
William Blake
“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
“There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”
Charles M. Schwab
“Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead”
Lilly Langtry
“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool”
Marquis De Sade