Quotes of: Limitations Keyword

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Bill Dedman

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Helen Keller

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Roberto Azevedo

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

John Yoo

Cook another feast,' Bruenor grumbled. 'Suren the elf has his eye fixed on another wedding." Drizzt let it go at that. Maybe there was a ring of truth in Bruenor's words for some distant date. No longer did Drizzt limit his hopes and desires. He woul...

The Halfling's Gem

The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major figure here is Grover Smith, who in the midfifties published an encyclopedic study of E...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the process bears some relation to their limited and li...

The State of the Art

Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive. Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us. Free will is our infinite ability to make choices within that fra...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do. The only way to override your "limitations, insecurities, jealousies, and ineptitude" is to produce. You have limitations. You are in some way inept. This is tr...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. W...

Mike Norton

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculti...

Sri Aurobindo

Knowing your limits, and that there is a limit to getting what you want, comes from a sense of self-respect instilled in you from an early age. It takes guts to stand up in the face of what you really want, but you have to know in your heart that if ...

Goldie Hawn

My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph's dungeon is the road to Joseph's throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother if the iron hath not entered into thee. ...

George Matheson

Dr. Lappe: We have people to service these machines. Joe Turner: These things are really pretty simple - they just look complicated. Dr. Lappe: Mr. Turner, I wonder if you're entirely happy here. Joe Turner: Within obvious limits, yes sir. Dr. Lappe:...

Three Days of the Condor

Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but...

Anthon St. Maarten

A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead ego-centred, competitive, goal-oriented lives. Overpreoccupied with their past and th...

Life

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

Carry on, Jeeves

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

There's a choice?" "Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

Grand Conspiracy

That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".

The Great Gatsby