Quotes About Boundaries

I've learned more and more to just protect myself and avoid things that'll hurt my feelings.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

When one chooses a life as a public personality they give up certain levels of privacy but in one's home and intimate moments everyone should be protected.

I am protecting my personal life because for me, that's my sanctity. When I am done with shooting and home, that's my reality check.

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.

There must be protection of the external borders.

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know - and my favorite thing about Bella is that she's a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they've taught me not to let other people define what I'm capable of.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or expression. In India, by contrast, we routinely get hysterical if the flag is ever taken out of the boundaries of officialdom.

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

We must go quickly before my sister gets back. Which are you ashamed of, her or me? I'm ashamed of myself, said Sebastian gravely. I'm not going to have you get mixed up with my family. They're so madly charming. All my life they've been taking thongs from me. If they once got hold of you with your charm, they'd make you their friend not mine, and I won't let them.

I always maintain a certain privacy on the sea. One so easily forms acquaintances which become tedious later.

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

Human sympathy has its limits.

Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.

Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade

They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn't really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn't want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.