“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.” IfsThinkingWould BeLanguageHalfCuttingCoupleLimitsMusic IsOneselfDefinitionsPeculiarDictionaryIlliterateAvant GardeNew Music Author:Archie Shepp
“This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.” PeopleHumansMightAbleHalfSupportPlanetsComfortLimitsEnvironmentalPopulationBillionsDamageRelativePopulation ControlHuman PopulationEnvironmental Damage Author:Eric Pianka
“Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.” MenWellsSufferingOpportunityHalfSkyDevelopmentLimitsEqualAffectedDeniedEqual OpportunitySky Is The Limit Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoMatterHardCharacterLanguageSexWomenInterestingHalfRevolutionLimitsBehaviorDecadesStatementsCondemningConnotationPromiscuousSexual Revolution Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.” MenWorldGivenJusticeHalfCompassionMoralCreationThis WorldProveLimitsConscienceAngelEnvironmentalGods WillVersionsBehaveBeastTensionJudaismArenaStewardshipDominion Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.” FirstsWellsTwoMightCareHoursCitiesHalfMorningCarNew YorkLimitsWasteStartingDon't CareMilesI Don't CareThirtyWasting TimeStarting OutOmahaCommuting Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.” ThinkingLongTwoEndsWould BeEyeHalfTeamShapesMoonCreaturesLimitsShadowDiedSizeEdgesBoundariesGentleBordersHorizonTrollBlurryLong ShadowsHalf MoonPatrolling Book:The God of Small Things Source: The God of Small Things
“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.” MenTryingMightEarthLyingHalfLoversSucceedTenSkillsLimitsConsequenceSurpriseLipsCloudsMortalsRememberedThroatCaressSurprise MeGuessworkGood Lovers Author:N.K. Jemisin
“(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated so badly that she half-expected it to disintegrate underneath them.) Cap’n, I don’t think she’ll hold. The warp engines can’t take any more. It’s going to blow apart. (Astrid)” IfsThinkingShouldHalfLaughingLimitsBlowExpectedEnginesTanksCapsUnsureWarp Book:Dance With the Devil Source: Dance With the Devil