Alice Munro Quotes

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.