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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Limits'

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In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Michael Burgess, British Celebrity (1950-  )
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman (1729-1797)
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
Jeb Bush, American Politician (1953-  )
The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
Emma Caulfield, American Actress (1973-  )
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher (1881-1955)
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher (1881-1955)
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer (1917-2008)
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer (1917-2008)
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau, French Director (1889-1963)
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee, South African Author (1940-  )
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
Robert Collier, American Publisher
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 (1892-1986)
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
Piers Corbyn, English Scientist (1947-  )
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.
Jim Costa, American Politician (1952-  )
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
Billy Crudup, American Actor (1968-  )
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Christopher Dawson, English Writer
I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
Dustin Diamond, American Actor (1977-  )
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
Wilhelm Dilthey, German Historian (1833-1911)
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
Carl Clinton Van Doren, American Critic (1885-1950)
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass, American Author (1817-1895)
 
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