Quotes About Boundaries

Freedom does not mean license.

We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

But that reflects a basic misunderstanding of how science proceeds and why the borders of scientific knowledge are not drawn along geographical lines.

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Never lose your temper on a man in whose world you live in

Teaming is the art of communicating and coordinating with people across boundaries of all kinds – expertise, status, and distance, to name the most important.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

You want to know why I don't have many friends here? At least not ones that count, according to your fucking standards handed down from on high, princess? Because I figured it out. What the difference is between friends and casual acquaintances. Between lovers and fuck buddies.

didn't often wake up in a man's bed period.

In fact, I'm thinking you're my object lesson for who I don't want to let into my life.

It was flesh inside your flesh, it was giving somebody a pass to your body and hoping they respected you enough to not hurt you.

I'll take care of it for now, Jer. But you gotta let me know I'm wanted, right? I killed a man for touching you—you gotta let me know you still want that.

She sighed. "Okay. But unless something else good comes along, I'm stopping at eight!

Cassidy was a beyond private person, and Mark had snuck into his bed on a tourist's pass. If he wanted residential privileges, he was going to have to earn them.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

Remember, if you've let her play with your hands like toys, she won't know any better and may bite you without meaning to.

Life is too short to attend to other men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own.

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority. Today

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.