#limit

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#border #death #fire #free #itself

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ↗

— Mark Twain

#limitless #multiplication #necessities #unnecessary

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#into #knows #limited #looks #man

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#conditions #develop #directly #elements #hand

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. ↗

— David Viscott

#any #consequence #effort #enthusiasm #face

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative. ↗

— John Warnock

#every #every time #i #limit #never

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#come #downwards #even #habit #inorganic

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. ↗

— Frances Wright

#being #honest #limit #rights #sentient

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #limits #live #musical #restrictions

And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read about or listen to or look at what is highest and the most beautiful in life, but are, if you please, to live it. Therefore, when I readily admit that romantic love lends itself much better to artistic portrayal than marital love, this does not at all mean that it is less esthetic than the other - on the contrary, it is more esthetic. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#love #marriage #the-incommunicable #the-unrepresentable #art