Limitations Quotes

"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

"And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"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

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it"

Woodrow Wilson

"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

"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 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

"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

"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

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