Limited Quotes - page 3

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle. (André Malraux)
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, - but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand. View quote
Ron Paul
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself. View quote
John Rawls
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing-a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand. View quote
George Smoot
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social! (Jean Baudrillard)
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. View quote
Adam Ferguson
Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours? View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. View quote
Robert Nozick
May your future be limited only by your dreams! View quote
Christa McAuliffe
If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home. View quote
Betty Friedan
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. (Virginia Satir)
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all. View quote
Richard Bach
It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. View quote
John Templeton
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them. View quote
Karen Armstrong
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. View quote
T. E. Hulme