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.
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
There are allowable limits for radiation going – I mean there’s radiation all around us. There’s radiation from your television set. There’s radiation from your computer. There’s radiation actually occurring in the ground.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba – and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned – there are limits.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God’s account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
I suffered a lot from social anxiety, and being on set was really scary to me. That fear can cause limits in your art and your performance because you’re not going all in because there is this little thing in your head.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
I don’t believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.
When your focus is franchises and brands, that limits the kinds of stories you can tell. That kind of thing can be good for the bottom line but they’re not particularly good for showcasing the diversity of human experience.
We need term limits desperately in this country.
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.
Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.
While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation’s energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as ‘off limits,’ and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.
If you’re really good in the ring, there’s no limits to what you can do in the WWE as a woman!
The only limits we have are the limits we give ourselves.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
This is the time for me to step out and show that I don’t just want to play the nice guy roles, and I think I’ll find out what my limits are.
In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
I think ‘Magneto’ is definitely an anti-hero. He’s fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He’s not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’
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.
I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it’s a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.
We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
I know my body’s limits. I’ve never enjoyed Spin classes, where they’re like, ‘Push it further!’ I’m like, ‘No. If I pull something, I can’t work tomorrow.’ That’s why I gave up Bikram yoga.
It can’t possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
As an actor, when you don’t have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.
Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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.
Those lumpen mercenaries who make money on the back of the destiny of all, those who call for invasion, those who continuously offend in words and acts… would be well advised that this people’s patience has limits.
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
My limits are what are comfortable to me. We are all individuals and have different views and perspectives, and I do what I feel is most comfortable and OK for me.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
I know what I want from life and how to get it. That doesn’t mean I’ll go to any limits to get that. If I get it great, if I don’t, it’s still fine.
I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
While I’m leader, nothing will be off limits – there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
Robotics, manufacturing, medicine, farming, energy – all will be pushed to and beyond their limits and, by so doing, will advance at speeds far faster than without the impetus and challenge of opening a frontier – thus also raising the odds of survival in our favor.
I see myself as a player for whom there are no limits.
This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.
I have my company, Elite Himalayan Adventures, which provides a platform for those who seek to push their limits on extreme adventures, whether that be Everest and Lhotse in Nepal, or K2 and Broad Peak in Pakistan.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
For female wrestlers, it’s always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem to reach those age limits more quickly.
We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm’s output.
Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
