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  • An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.

    Reality   Limits   Speed  
  • The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

    John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books
  • Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

    Mean   Mirrors   Views  
  • Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

    Wise   Odds   Smoking  
  • I think part of Donald Trump's appeal is that he's a guy that does cut corners, that he's the guy that does get deals and maybe does break a speed limit. I think there was sort of a roguish, rascally, but I get things done even if I break the rules.

    Cutting   Thinking   Guy  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

  • Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

    Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books
  • And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

    Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979
  • If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

    Justice   Limits   Firsts  
    Kinky Friedman (2007). “You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.

    Party   School   Reality  
  • I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.

    Mean   Light   Law  
    Source: live.washingtonpost.com
  • As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

  • At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  • All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

    Mistake   Marijuana   Law  
    Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.215, The New Press
  • I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

    Wind   Risk   Sound  
    Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
  • It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

    School   Kids   Giving  
    "Jamie Oliver: 'No one understands me. No one'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.
  • It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

    Wise   Writing   Thinking  
    "How to be Hopeful". Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver, today.duke.edu. 2008.
  • Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

    Jesus   People   Twenties  
    Carl Hiaasen (2010). “Strip Tease”, p.470, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

  • I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

    Average   Car   Germany  
  • We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

  • I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

    Limits   Patriot   Speed  
    "Neverlution". Comedy, 2011.
  • We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.

    Clever   Eye   Two  
  • Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

    Love   Motor Racing   Car  
  • I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

    Thinking   Limits   Speed  
  • There are no speed limits on the road to success.

  • I never exceed the posted speed limit.

    Limits   Speed   Exceed  
    "10 Burning Questions for Jason Priestley". Page 2 Interview, www.espn.com.
  • Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

    Country   America   Mph  
  • There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  • Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

    Wrath   Riding   Way  
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