Limitations Quotes

"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband"

Corazon Aquino, President

"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make"

Les Brown, Businessman

"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind"

Ramana Maharshi, Philosopher

"Biography, for all its potential pitfalls and limitations, remains an essential tool in the historian's kit, helping us to understand the human dimension of the past, and offering a window into the lives and motivations of those who shaped events"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"The essence of democracy is not in power, but in its limitations"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style"

James Tenney, Composer

"I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it"

John O'Toole, Politician

"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up"

Robert Smith, Musician

"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"We see an entire planet which has many limitations"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"If you accept your limitations you go beyond them"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks"

David Friedman, Musician

"The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them"

Marv Levy, Coach

"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself"

Dionne Warwick, Musician

"I think it's important to know your limitations too"

Kip Winger, Musician

"It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors"

Vic Snyder, Politician

"A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films"

Tyrese Gibson, Actor

"Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life"

Anna H. Shaw

"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse"

Stephen R. Donaldson, Writer

"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included"

Ken Hensley, Musician

"Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"The new limitations are the human ones of perception"

Milton Babbitt, Composer

"Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface"

Robert Patterson

"I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge"

Joseph Fiennes, Actor

"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice"

Origen, Theologian

"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"But out of limitations comes creativity"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

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