Best limits & extremes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.”

Needs Kind Limits Criticism Extremes Critical Confrontation

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.”

Space Love Is Limits Extremes Circles Restless Orbit

Book:Plays and poems

Source: Plays and poems

“Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”

Reason Order Universe Materials Limits Built Distance Wave Extremes Dimensions No Reason Atoms Smallest Vibrations Frequency

Author:Wilhelm Rontgen

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”

Self Results Creation Limits Determination Infinite Notion Extremes Cosmos Self Determination Mixtures Expanse

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.”

“Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.”

May Has Beens Able Law Virtue Rights Crime Limits Degrees Sacred Extremes Innocence

Author:Jean Racine

“Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”

Limits Absolutes Extremes

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?”

Form Force Known Limits Extremes Breathe Scales Artificial Dread Anguish Elegance Exquisite Precision Refinement Infallible Guarded Roughness

Book:Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works

Source: Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works

“I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.”

Men Kind Gone Limits Extremes Obsessed Climbing Scotland Everest Outlander

Author:Sam Heughan

“While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.”

Seems Simple Progress Limits Highest Bounds Appreciation Extremes Riders Superhuman Freestyle

Author:Craig Kelly

“I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.”

Two Self Facts Fiction Limits Extremes Decades Revelations Display Personal Life Caution Public Life Limelight Self Revelation Fact And Fiction

Author:James McGreevey

“With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.”

Men Might Fall Five Youth Fool Limits Falling In Love Extremes Thirty

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”

Believe Law Political I Believe Wealth Liberty Poverty Democracy Proud Limits Equal Institutions Extremes I Believe In Rule Of Law Civil Liberties Wealth And Poverty

Author:Paul Krugman

“As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.”

Ifs Knows Men Love Life Years Stills Use Age Time Pleasure Know How Limits And Love Embrace Aging Extremes Old Age Sweetest

Author:Seneca the Younger

“All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.”

Ifs May Certain Freedom Democracy Limits Bounds Extremes

Author:Vladimir Lenin

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