Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Variant: You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.
“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.”
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Misattributed
As quoted by Mike Strickland, Director of Photographers at Walt Disney, Co. in Power Marketing for Wedding and Portrait Photographers (2004) by Mitche Graf, p. 19
As quoted in Say It Right : A Guide To Effective Oral Business Presentations (1994) by Garth A. Hanson, Kaye T. Hanson and Ted D. Stoddard
The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.
“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Shannon
Source: Chicago: City on the Make (1951), Chapter 2, ""Are you a Christian?""
Context: [About Chicago:] It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
“You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.”
Lyrics, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.”
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=miuCcUGkuYMC&q=%22Patience+has+its+limits+Take+it+too+far+and+it's+cowardice%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage to his parents from San Quentin Prison, 2 May 1965, in Soledad Brother (1970), p. 61
