Quotes of Finite - somelinesforyou

“ Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. ”

- Ezra

“ Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ Many ideas are good for a limited time — not forever. ”

- Robert Townsend

“ It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain — Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ How often the priest had heard the same confession — Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice. ”

- Graham Greene

“ My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction. ”

- Kathy Ireland

“ One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work. ”

- Roger Corman

“ When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. ”

- Larry Wall

“ He's not an ideologue, but a true strict constructionist believing in a limited role of the courts in our society. ”

- Lindsey Graham

“ Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. ”

- Unknown

“ How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? ”

- Woody Allen

“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”

- Woody Allen

“ There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living… a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. ”

- Laurens Van der Post

“ I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots. ”

- Steven Coallier

“ Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. ”

- Paul Tillich

“ Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. ”

- Peter Daniel

“ The infinite is in the finite of every instant. ”

- Unknown

“ To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency. ”

- Harold C. Phillips

“ We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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