"Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations."

-- Chuck Hagel

#Great Power Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”
“I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.”
“And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.”
“In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.”
“If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”
“Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are....”

Source : FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 10, 2011
“I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.”

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