Quotes of Curb - somelinesforyou

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ”

- George Orwell

“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Whatever limits us we call fate. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Whoever controls the media — the images — controls the culture. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. ”

- William Paley

“ He'd say, You know what your problem is? You just get bored. We're up and it's just too boring to take the check-down and dump it off. Oh no, you've got to be John Wayne. And he was right. ”

- Brett Favre

“ The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks. ”

- Bobby Riggs

“ Going as if he trod upon eggs. ”

- Robert Burton

“ I try to hold my charisma in check. ”

- George W. Bush

“ The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought… ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. ”

- Homer

“ Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it. ”

- Unknown

“ The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. ”

- Lord Byron

“ We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ”

- Will Rogers

“ An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. ”

- Jules Renard

“ I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago. ”

- Tom Ridge

“ The only limits are, as always, those of vision. ”

- James Broughton

“ Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ I think the key is for women not to set any limits. ”

- Martina Navratilova

“ Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. ”

- Darwin P. Kingsley
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