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“If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Energy Situation Limits Feels Right

“A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.”

World Different Would Be Air Limits Air Travel

“The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.”

Self Would Be Individual Forget Mankind Limits Bounds Welfare

Author:Alfred Adler

“I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.”

Ifs Want Would Be Style Limits Neglect Rock N Roll

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“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.”

“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.”

Knows Men Mean Would Be Able Religious Fiction Poet Limits Eternal Punishment Fixed Woe Resisting Menace

Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.”

Important Ideas Would Be Behinds Teach Comedy Hero Limits Acceptable What's Important My Hero

Author:Lea DeLaria

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Would Be Fall President Happened Sky Tomorrow Limits Constitution Data Rely Collections Nsa Warrants

Author:Rand Paul

“...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?”

Want Believe Children Would Be Perfect Hell Mines Holy Limits Anxiety Sorry Don't Believe Insane Superstitions Sane I'm Sorry Child Of God Avenging

Author:Bill Hicks

“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

“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.”

“Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.”

Needs May Different Real Moments Would Be Energy Women Roles Ought Limits Resources Tests Seasons Psychological Combination Acknowledge Pointless

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”

Humans Matter Would Be Funny Spirit Space Attention Crazy Limits Astronomy Silly Human Spirit Astronomy And Universe

Author:Stephen Hawking

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“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

“If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.”

Ifs Would Be Opportunity Careers Limits Chinese

Author:B. D. Wong

“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.”

“Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.”

Trying Would Be Language Limits Concepts Ideals Increase Clouds Contemporary Links Meanings Of Words

Book:Barthes: Selected Writings

Source: Barthes: Selected Writings

“If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.”

Ifs Would Be Limits Infinite

Author:Victor Hugo

“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.”

“It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?”

Want Use Would Be Limits Cards Consumers Friendly Over You

Author:Richard Thaler

“I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.”

People Ifs Should Persons Seems Would Be Care Knowing Limits Areas Decided Okay Be Good Medical Heal If I Could Shy Medical Care Knowing Things

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“His true Being comes to light and even penetrates his clothing. We should not limit ourselves to Jesus. We have to recognize ourselves, our own true form... Life would be so simple if we could always see what we are; if we could recognize what our neighbors are. If we could see the beams of light that pass through their clothing; if we could not only see their external form, but also experience their true being.”

Ifs Should Light Would Be Form Jesus Simple Limits Neighbor Clothings Penetrate Beam Beams Of Light

Author:Willigis Jager

“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 think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.”

Thinking Should States Would Be United Mistake United States Four Limits Corners Graves Welcome Allies

Author:Gerald Horne

“We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.”

People Way Want Would Be Levels Limits Essentials Capacity Rate Meaningful Immigration One Way Regions Efficient Schemes Exploitation Bribe

Author:James M. Buchanan

“My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.”

Mean Would Be Individual Impossible Limits Method Lays Useless Contention

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Littles Ends Would Be Bits Lines Limits Little Bit Nothingness Lowest Charlotte's Web

Author:E. B. White

“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

People Self Feelings Would Be Hours Minutes Limits Sorry Pity Waking Self Pity Feeling Sorry

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“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

“Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.”

World Trying Hard Would Be Fire Our Lives Limits Breaths Breathe Rage Breathing Dragons Destroying Oxygen Lungs Unwise Life Span

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.”

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

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