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Limits Quotes

"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."

Rose E. Bird, American Chief Justice

Limits, Majority

"It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown."

Diana Cooper, English Celebrity

Limits, Mind, Space

"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."

Bobby Heenan, American Entertainer

"I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture."

Peter Wright, British Celebrity

Limits, Living, Trying

"Limits are very important."

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

"So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits."

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

"Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Limits, Turkeys, Eagles, Run, Fly

"I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."

Nolan Ryan, American Athlete

"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."

Sean Bean, English Actor

"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Limits, Fancy, Necessity, Will

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

Limits, Limitations

"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

Limits, Tolerance

"One finds limits by pushing them."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Limits, First, Self

"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Limits, Effort, Possibility, Reality

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."

Robert Smith, English Musician

"I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

Limits, Musicians, Present, Want

"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

George Eliot, British Author

Limits, Wishing

"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."

Giulio Andreotti, Italian Politician

Limits, Giants, Living, World

"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste."

Stan Sakai, Japanese Cartoonist

"We don't have major limits in the transfer market."

David Gill, Scottish Scientist

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