Quotes About Boundaries

You cannot soothe everyone.

Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the audience of this tale, numbers still are attached to objects.

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

A leader must be friendly, approachable, and accessible but ought not to allow too much familiarity. After all, he's still the boss. It may sound stuffy, but a leader has to maintain his dignity, another old-fashioned notion. He must be cautious about the activities he agrees to join.

But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.

when you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know.

I couldn't any more have touched her then than if she had been my little sister.

Get away from my brother. - Damon

I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time.

Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

from Mr. Bell. Sorry, miss! Sorry isn't going to help matters any. You'd better go and look at the havoc that animal has made in my oats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ trampled them from center to circumference, miss. I am very sorry, repeated Anne firmly, but perhaps if you kept your fences in better repair Dolly might not have broken in. It is your part

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

Confío en que no piense que soy una de esas horribles personas que le hacen sentir que hay que hablarles todo el tiempo. Hablaremos cuando nos apetezca.

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life

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let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

moat. It's a stark reminder that there is no getting in or out