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“I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

Knows Writing Two Certain My Own Knowing Reader Limits Capable Two Things Sensibility

Author:Paullina Simons

“Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.”

Two Games Limits Anxiety Bread Two Things

Author:Juvenal

“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

“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.”

Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue

“There are at the present time two great nations in the world - allude to the Russians and the Americans. All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.”

World Two Seems Nations Path Limits Proceeding Great Nations Present Time

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.”

Knows Way Two Certain Can Do Crazy Involved Terrible Limits Judgment Election Democrat Conservative Convinced Arguing Cherish Progressive Plague Hostility Terrible Times

Author:Anne Lamott

“Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.”

Giving Two Running Passion Limits Strive Seats Pushing Endurance Drivers My Passion Two Days

Book:Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.”

Firsts Two Matter Enough Games Grows Sports Race Sea Pride One Day Limits Rivers Fishes Available Boat Lakes Fishing Urgent Hope For The Future Sportsman

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.”

Two Father Hours Kings Limits Series Sand Pilots Dylan Outer Limits

Author:Beau Bridges

“I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.”

People Thinking Knows Two Use Limits Approach Campaigns Finance Openness Campaign Finance

Author:David Brooks

“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Two Country Stories Seems Brain Pieces Groups Week Century Ten Limits Filled China Data Borders Traveled Analysts Crawling Filing

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.”

Men Wells Persons Two Limits Worship Bounds Deny Flesh Guilty Savior Heresy Inseparable Blasphemy

Book:The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

Source: The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.”

World May Two Age Reading Vision Study Creation Fields Limits Normal Perception Two Things Creation Of The World Reading History

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

“Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.”

Ifs Should Two Three Fans Worst Fronts Huge Lessons Limits Musician Music Is Limitation Genre Genre Is Music Fans

Author:Phil Anselmo

“It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.”

Ifs Long Two Enough Kids Choices Hours Hell Wife Week Limits Office Married My Wife Holiday Incentives Two Weeks Getting Married Long Hours

Author:Michael O'Leary

“Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.”

Knows Two House Situation Limits Members Evidence Rejoice Unbearable Insidious Industrious

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.”

Two Happiness Suffering Type Limits Chosen Magnificent Distress Murderer

Author:Albert Camus

“A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.”

World Two Limits Monument Tombs Two Worlds

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“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.”

Thinking Wells Stills Two Matter Hard Character Language Sex Women Interesting Half Revolution Limits Behavior Decades Statements Condemning Connotation Promiscuous Sexual Revolution

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.”

Ifs Two Feet Limits Scared Get Up

Author:Sunny Leone

“To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.”

Thinking Men Doe Two Nations Wish United Opinion Limits Kingdoms Sensible Assembly Mischief United Kingdom

Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.”

Ifs Way Two Together Song Reading Possibility Limits Visuals Working Together Multiple

Author:Richard Hell

“I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.”

People Way Kind Two Self Consciousness Limits Appropriate Allowing Self Control Two Ways Double Meaning

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.”

Way Looks Two Eye Belief Walks Attitude Possibility Limits And Love Plenty Cherish Justified Two Ways Allegiance Belief Systems Through The Eyes

Author:Alan Cohen

“The original AMD GCN architecture allowed for one source of graphics commands, and two sources of compute commands. For PS4, we've worked with AMD to increase the limit to 64 sources of compute commands - the idea is if you have some asynchronous compute you want to perform, you put commands in one of these 64 queues, and then there are multiple levels of arbitration in the hardware to determine what runs, how it runs, and when it runs, alongside the graphics that's in the system.”

Ifs Want Two Ideas Running Levels Source Limits Increase Originals Determine Architecture Command Multiple Hardware Queues Arbitration

Author:Mark Cerny

“It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.”

Two Stories Light Sound Sky Limits Add Neighbour Skyscraper Statesmanship Soundness

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

“As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.”

“We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing - in which case they would soon be overflowing. Or we can show responsibility and organize a distribution system that takes into account the limits of each individual member state. Migrants, for their part, must recognize that, while they have a right to protection, they do not have the right to freely choose the country. In addition, it is clear: Not everybody can come to us.”

Two Country States Shows Individual Responsibility Cases Clear Limits Members Accounts Protection Operations Organize Distribution Greece Migrants Two Options

Author:Martin Schulz

“We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.”

Two Real Helping Use Simple Limits Technique Simplify Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“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.”

Firsts Wells Two Might Care Hours Cities Half Morning Car New York Limits Waste Starting Don't Care Miles I Don't Care Thirty Wasting Time Starting Out Omaha Commuting

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

Ifs Doe Two Reason Lasts Numbers Steps Limits Achievement Infinite Supreme Recognition Realising Excess

Author:Blaise Pascal

“It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.”

Ifs Two Soul Seems Would Be Difficult Views Mountain Limits Average Variety Charm Dull Native Thrown Lakes Flats Inquiry Comprehensive County Retrospect Switzerland Nuisance Statistician

Author:Francis Galton

“I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.”

People Two Different Real Facts Choices Party Principles Watches Offers Limits Majors Alternatives Status Quo Flavor Sidelines Fray Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Gary Johnson

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“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

“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.”

“If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.”

People Ifs Two Country Used Spirit Culture Language Sky Honor Limits Commitment Letters India Terrorist Ties Territory Cooperation Pakistan Promoting Two Countries Sky Is The Limit

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.”

Needs Years Two Ability Levels Practice Support Limits Complexes Endurance Capability High Level Divergent Terrain Omitting

Author:Steve House

“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.”

Two Law Choices Individual Principles Roles Teach Limits Behavior Acceptable Individual Choice

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.”

Thinking Years Believe Two Lasts I Believe President Term Numbers Doubt Team Limits I Believe In Arguing No Doubt Last Year Term Limits I Am The Best

Author:Barack Obama

“Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.”

Two Whole Seems Hours Minutes Prove Limits Empowerment Wings Liberating Restriction Fearlessness Dose

Author:Kathrine Switzer

“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

“The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”

Two Moving Limits Logic Skepticism Validation Dogmatism

Book:From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II

Source: From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II

“The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.”

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature”

World Way Two Hard Enough Together Literature Cutting This World Limits Hard Times Stakes Splits Verbs Inhuman Disappearance Shovels

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“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.”

Thinking Long Two Ends Would Be Eye Half Team Shapes Moon Creatures Limits Shadow Died Size Edges Boundaries Gentle Borders Horizon Troll Blurry Long Shadows Half Moon Patrolling

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“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