Best limits & wells Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.”

Wells Persons Ability Limits Committed Selected Axioms

Author:Tom Peters

“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.”

“Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.”

Knows Wells I Can Can Do Know How Achieve Limits Achievement Tests

Author:Price Pritchett

“All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.”

Ifs Wells Reason Might Easier Limits Harder Wrong Reasons Timer Time Limit

Author:Colleen Hoover

“I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.”

Men Mind Wells Heart Earth Values Universe Known Limits And Love Spots Fixed Estates Well Known Worldly Heart And Mind Small Parts Acres Coarse

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”

“You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.”

Knows Writing Wells Television Limits Appreciate Accomplish

Author:John Bolton

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.”

Way Wells Mean Play Differences Limits Performances Difficulty Variety Combination Uncertainty Poetic Composition Ambiguity Attainment Identifying Interpreter

Author:Laura Riding

“Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.”

Men Want Needs Humans Wells Reason Hands Desire Individual Energy Given Enjoy Rights Conditions Limits Absolutes Individuality Inclination Human Hands

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”

“There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.”

People Men Writing Wells Together Forget Views Wife He Man Lovers Limits Point Of View Circles Contact Love And Marriage Not Friends Circle Of Friends Forget Love

Book:Book of common sense etiquette

Source: Book of common sense etiquette

“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.”

Wells Book Limits Western Occult Manuscripts

Author:Terence McKenna

“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.”

“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)

“Naming can limit as well as empower.”

Wells Names Limits Empowering

Book:Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Source: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.”

“There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Together Mystery Limits

Author:Walter Mosley

“Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.”

Writing Wells I Can Character Film Fun Views Steps Roles Wonderful Design Limits Skins Scripts Point Of View Budgets Fascinating Compelling Costumes Lighting Zips

Author:Robin Hobb

“He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.”

Want Wells Mean Limits Moderation Retired Thrift

Author:Ovid

“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.”

Men Wells Suffering Opportunity Half Sky Development Limits Equal Affected Denied Equal Opportunity Sky Is The Limit

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Causes Simple Powerful Common Practice Advice Limits Ill Breathe Well Being Breathing Just One Ill Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“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

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.”

Wells Looks Might Able Imagination Conditions One Day Limits Concepts Mirrors Limitation Sufficient Look Up Majesty Truest Possessing Inadequacy Expansiveness

Author:Ian Tattersall

“The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.”

Wells Done Lord Limits Stupidity

Author:Konrad Adenauer

“I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.”

Wells Long Would Be Limits Customers

Author:Sam Walton

“Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.”

Way Wells Government Earth Individual Limits Election Sensible

Author:Warren Buffett

“I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.”

Knows Feels Wells Limits Lonely Bottom Jumping Feeling Lonely Oblivious Time Limit Jumping In

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.”

Wells War Hands Law President Limits Authority Constitution Bounds Occasions

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.”

Wells Existence Mountain Limits Intellectual Desert Realms Restless Explorers

Author:George Schaller

“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

“Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.”

People Trying Wells Looks I Can Play Actors Roles Limits Ridiculous Proposal Disclosure

Author:Demi Moore

“There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut”

Men Humans Wells Stills Body Energy Can Do Brain Wise Limits Waste Pursuit Wiser Human Body Human Brain No Energy

Author:William E. Gladstone

“The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district.”

Years Wells Long States Enough Law Individual President United Opinion United States Limits Eight Serving Representatives

Author:Michele Bachmann

“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.”

“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

“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.”

Years Believe Wells Country Facts Millions Gone Birth Ten Limits Europe Rate Including Other Countries Seventies Birth Rate

Author:Indira Gandhi

“The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.”

“The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.”

Ifs Way Wells States Government Remember Order Achieve Limits Speech Impact Zone Free Speech Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Edward Snowden

“What are people released from prison expected to do? How are they expected to survive? Can't get a job, locked out of housing, and even food stamps may be off limits. Well, apparently what we expect them to do is to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees, fines, court costs, and back child support (which continues to accrue while you are in prison).”

People Wells May Children Jobs Pay Support Fine Cost Limits Court Dollars Prison Expected Locked Stamps Housing Fees Food Stamps

Author:Michelle Alexander

“I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Kind Made Whole Challenges Greater Nice Havens Communication Limits Mass Available Whole World Restraint Mass Communication

Author:Pico Iyer

“Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Believe Wells Doe Government Courses Limits Paint Libertarian Lazy Bizarre Caricatures Hardcore Dichotomy

Author:Paul Ryan

“As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”

Mind Wells Littles Happens Bits Limits Little Bit Determination Instinct Racing Power Of The Mind Formula One Natural Instinct Auto Racing Racing Driver Formula 1

Author:Ayrton Senna

“Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.”

Knows Wells Limits Claims Sacred

Book:Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

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