Limitless Quotes - Page 11

• The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

  John Cowper Powys

  Attitude, Philosophy, Sensitive

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, pp. 27-28, 1929.

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• As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Fake, Challenges

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Finding Yourself, Gains

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• Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Men, Games

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• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  Matt Taibbi

  Names, America, Criminals

  "Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  Laura Mennell

  Fun, Ideas, Fiction

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• Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

  Jane Fonda

  Reality, Feminism, Ultimate

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• The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Space, Body, Internet

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  God, Way, Limits

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.162, Macmillan

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• The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

  Marita Golden

  Friends, Baby, Husband

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.32, Anchor

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• Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

  Emma Roberts

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Desire

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• In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Religious, Growth, Want

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, ourworld.unu.edu. July 5, 2012.

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• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Heaven, Soul

  Clive Barker (2011). “Abarat”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Desire, Want, Individual

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.78, Souvenir Press

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• What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

  John Banville

  Grief, Ocean, Weight

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• But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, Understanding, Tolerance

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• If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?

  Tite Kubo

  World, Nothing To Lose, Should

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• History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Capacity, Teach

  Chalmers Johnson (2007). “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic”, p.71, Macmillan

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• Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Space, Choices, Arbitrary

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• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

  Eric Schlosser

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

  Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial

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