Best limits & force Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.”

“Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.”

Mean Form Force Limits Mediums Limitation Improvisation Transcending Very Mean

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.”

Firsts Made Two Together Force Conflict Limits Intellectual Thirds Critical Fourth Formal Contradictory Right Words

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.”

Love Heart Feelings Choices Force Love Is Limits Harshness

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”

Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent

“A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.”

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”

Way May Found Given Force Water Movement Objects Listening Limits Function Sake Boundaries Fixed Helpful Listeners Fulfilling Definite Centre Confined Talkers Canals Restraining Erratic

Author:Charles Dickens

“Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.”

Knows Mind Doe Use Government Force Accepting Know How Limits Rate Appeals Spontaneous Adaptation Looking Forward Adjustment Apprehension Accepting Change

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.”

Country Force Taken Limits Essentials Property Preserves Attributes Breach Jurisdiction

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Mind Humans Force Secret Know How Ready Bears Limits Giving Up Blow Concentration Human Mind Power Of The Mind Ready To Give Up

Book:Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”

“As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of moralityonly by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.”

Knows Humans Doe Spirit Humanity Force Community Human Beings Existence Progress Limits Violent Release Rebel Revolt Monotony Demonic Cyclones Excessive Force

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.”

Knows Way Needs Giving Feels May Hard Moments Might Force Wish Accepting Talent Goes On Limits Parenthood New Ways Time Goes On

Author:Fred Rogers

“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.”

May Important Force Loss Limits Behavior Perception Survival Gains Threat Profit Driving Driving Force Profit Maximization

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.”

Use Action Force Cases Limits Police Introducing Unnecessary Legislation Use Of Force

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

People Hands Age Used Hate Evil Force Sex Psychology Century Limits Release Tyrants Mechanism Forbidden Breeding Scapegoat Sadism Cathartic

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.”

May Government Force Sin Powerful Judging Limits Most Powerful Destroying Artistry Misuse

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them.”

World May Doe Desire Force Grows Grace Tears Holy Limits Tired Thrust Bargains Proclamation

Book:The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Source: The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.”

“War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.”

War Hands Action Force Results Theory Limits Application Adversaries Reciprocal

Book:On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles

Source: On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles

“Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.”

Force Growth Water Natural Cities Economy Economic Limits Complexes Corporate Subtle Executives Expansion Economic Growth Bankers Constraints

Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson

“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

“Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.”

Reality Language Force Answers Mystery Limits Logical Puzzles

Book:The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

Source: The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

“So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.”

Men Way Needs Writing Different Force Support He Man Battle Limits Different Ways Boss Articles Organize Gang Eleanor Contemptuous

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”

Character Force Novel Impossible Limits Invention Sonnet Possible Change

Author:Alexander Chee

“It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.”

Way Mean Certain Force Limits Built Socialist Requirements Strain

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it helps the environment, it helps people, but it doesn't alienate us and it doesn't cause our organizations to fall apart by centrifugal force.”

People Thinking Needs Helping Fall Force Causes Environment Sweet Limits Advantage Organization Spots Falling Apart

Author:Howard Rheingold

“There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.”

Ifs Two Helping Three Force Space Limits Opposites Speed Strings Strain Anchors Snaps Drifting Unreliable Triangles Collide

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality”

People Force Limits Rational Normality

Author:Hiroya Oku

“Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.”

“Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.”

Eye Earth Moving Fall Force Heaven Air Havens Limits Bird Stones Seasons Winter Breathe Foolish Temples Empires Rome Tides Thrones Her Eyes

Book:Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

Source: Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

“There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Force Ability Opinion Limits Unlimited

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

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