Top 1200 Term Limits Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".

The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.

You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our money trail; we created that term for you so that we can have all our money and still get everything we want from you without you asking for or expecting this very basic, instincual responsibility that men all over the world are obligated to assume and embrace. ... KNOW THIS: It is your right to expect that a man will pay for your dinner, your movie ticket, your club entry fee, or whatever else he has to pay for in exhange for your time.

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.

When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

I want to make it clear, though, that I am not trying to say these are bad drugs. Opioid medications in the short term for severe pain are very effective. The problem is when they are used for long-term chronic pain. No one wants anyone to suffer and be in pain. But realize how addictive these drugs are and get off of them as quickly as you can. So 'Warning: This Drug May Kill You' is really more about educating people about these drugs so that everyone can make their own decision about their pain versus the addictive nature of these drugs.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.