(1602 quotes found)
“A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that government cannot and should not do. Liberals and socialists, on the other hand, are convinced that by interfering with the free market they can create a better economy, or that by social engineering they can create a new and improved human nature.”
Stockwell Day
“I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.”
Corazon Aquino
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
Simone Weil
“Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation.”
Bruce Lee
“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.”
James Broughton
“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
V. S. Naipaul
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
Frederick Douglass
“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
“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
