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“It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.”

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that. But, I do think that it may save fewer souls if people can't pay attention.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind May Soul Pay Attention Worry Limits Pay Attention Fewer

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I don't know if I approach choice any differently than the sighted people do, but what I am very cognizant of is that choice does have limits and because of that I really try to take advantage of the domains in which I do have choice.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Doe Choices Limits Approach Advantage Domain Cognizant

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.”

Trying Choices Energy Five Particular Limits Picks Areas Priorities Good Choices

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.”

Thinking Want Universe Forever Rights Willing Limits Contracts

Author:Isabel Allende

“I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.”

Thinking Should Wells Government Term Party Type Limits Goodness Bills Sake Congress Tea Budgets Amendments Balanced Legislation Tea Party Mandates Term Limits Balanced Budget

Author:Rand Paul

“My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.”

People Knows Want Said Pieces Limits Variation

Author:Carl Andre

“It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.”

Source: Hatching Twitter

“There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.”

Love Self Enough Self Love Limits Charity

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.”

Way Running Imagination Environment Limits Training Partners Routine Our Environment Vary Spices

Book:The Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for begng Intermediate Runners 2nd rev Edition

Source: The Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for begng Intermediate Runners 2nd rev Edition

“You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.”

Guy Willing Limits Where You Are Controlled Modesty

Book:Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty

Source: Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty

“We have a stewardship responsibility to keep ourselves healthy physically and emotionally. If we don't, we cannot carry out our obligations to God, to family, to our employer, or to others. With this in mind, we put limits on the extent to which we allow others to abuse us. Doing right will mean abuse part of the time; that goes with the turf. But inviting abuse or failing to deal with it is wrong.”

Ifs Mind Mean Deals Responsibility Failing Healthy Limits Abuse Obligation Bitterness Employers Stewardship Inviting Doing Right Turf

Author:Richard Walters

“Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.”

People Ifs Thinking Process Understanding Limits Pushing Thought Provoking Provoking

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.”

Mind Process Understanding Forget Cases Path Limits Ego Islam Objectives Obsession Liberation Liberating

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Very often when I see people who are perceived to be, or who call themselves progressives, sometimes I see an imbalance. Yes I understand the courage in their mind but I don't see the spirituality in their heart, good you are questioning the limits, but what about yourself, are you also liberating yourself?”

People Mind Heart Sometimes Spirituality Limits About Yourself Questioning Liberating Imbalance

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen.”

Ifs Needs Should Happens Action Responsibility Greater Happened Limits Complexes Debate Terrorist Favour

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.”

People Want Mean Body Desire Humanity Order Fall Christianity Sky Limits Who We Are Mutual Rescue Want U Interdependence Mutual Respect

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.”

Giving Writing Moments Stories Together Generations Limits Giving Up Moved Campaigns Thanks Chapters Ceilings

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.”

Limits My Family Theme Specifics

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Have you noticed that when it comes to immigration we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard, and who is it that really is subject to most of the limits there? Have to say it’s white immigrants.”

Hard White Subjects Limits Immigration Damn Immigrants Herds Legal Immigration

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There's no limit to what you can accomplish in the world of entertainment. It's all I've ever known since I was 19.”

World Known Limits Entertainment Accomplish

Author:Chris Jericho

“Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.”

Ifs Should Said Hard Kids Suffering Hate Jesus Challenges Church Compassion Limits Neighbor Disciple Our Love Hate You Hard Things About Family

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.”

Humans Ends Human Beings Party Responsibility Compassion Poverty Limits Institutions Injustice

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.”

States Nations Offers Limits Europe Globalization

Author:Martin Schulz

“People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.”

People Care Kids Used Turns Left Pay Limits Clothes Capitalism Profit Take Care Absurd Capitalist Breaking Down

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change our behavior around water, water will become as valuable as oil. That is a given. When people don't understand that, I'm surprised.”

People Ifs Care Given Water Planets Limits Behavior Valuable Oil I Care Don't Change

Author:Alysia Reiner

“A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.”

Thinking Way Want Made Ideas Done Process Steps Imagine Plans Limits Reasonable Efficient Every Step

Author:Damian Kulash

“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.”

Motivational Fear Limits Illusion Conquer Your Fears

Author:Michael Jordan

“This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.”

Country Religious Views Citizens Limits Court Track Supreme Supreme Court Religious Views

Author:John Cornyn

“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.”

Believe Seems America Sex Religious Wonder Violence Crime Expression Protect Limits Court Pornography Depiction

Author:John Cornyn

“[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.”

Said Body Limits Judgment Court Democratic Representatives Democratic Society Reflexes Dependable

Author:Sam Brownback

“Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.”

Fighting Understanding Ability Accepting Please Limits Inherent Inevitability Accepting Life

Author:Epictetus

“Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.”

Way Kids Perfect Forever Growing Limits Evolve Fulfilling Testing

Author:Daphne Oz

“In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.”

Reality Film Limits Luxury Narrative Variables

Author:Adrian Grenier

“Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.”

Thinking Men Writing Children Doe Feelings Inspiration Spiritual Limits Curiosity Flaws Mortality Old Man Sparks

Author:Kit Williamson

“When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.”

Feelings Walks Knowing Fields Emotional Limits Sweat Exhausted

Author:Joanna Lohman

“I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.”

Limits Vegetarian

Author:Brett Dennen

“I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.”

People Moments Politician Limits Creating Misery Greed China Corporations Buying Remove

Author:Greg Saunier

“I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.”

Games Levels Situation Knowing Football Limits Lows Accounts Range I've Learned Pounds Inflation Low Level Specifications Deflation Possible Change

Author:Bill Belichick

“China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.”

Decision Party Creativity Effects Citizens Limits Speech Ideals China Communist Freedom Of Speech Detrimental Communist Party

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.”

Political Individual Our Lives Conditions Limits Bounds Ties Restriction Individual Freedom

Author:Ai Weiwei

“There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.”

Way Years Believe Has Beens Two Three Break Knowing Succeed Limits Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Nathan Parsons

“You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.”

Feels Limits Insecure

Author:William H. Macy

“I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.”

Knows Men Want Kind Made Said Home Gone Week Special Changed Limits Six My Family Speed Coming Home Lots Of Money Burned Egypt Something Special Kenya Burned Out Safari Speed Limits

Author:Sammy Hagar

“A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.”

People Want Matter Turns Player Team Football Limits Boards Distraction Quests Distracted Football Player Football Team

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.”

“Basically we learned not ever to do a show like that [ Gigi Does It] again. That took me to a limit that I didn't know I had. First off, I show-ran the show and was the head writer. I had never done anything like that before. It was an immense responsibility.”

Knows Firsts Doe Done Shows Responsibility Limits Ran Immense

Author:David Krumholtz

“In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.”

Mind Believe Certain Turns Found Belief Limits Being True Programming Provinces

Author:John C. Lilly

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