When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response. " Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.
Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop.
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate. . . . It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.