Quotes About Boundaries

If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.

I won't work with Terry Richardson again.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

Your bottom may look very nice, but it does not belong on my sterile work surface.

And I may not be all that I was, but I'll still come at you with a shotgun if you try sticking your penis into my daughter.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?" "How so?" "Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off.

A fence sets men together, not apart.

But at least I am in a place larger than a teacup. I once dwelt in a cup of tea, and on that occasion, I sensed the constraints of the space.

Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.

Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Three things I never lends—my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Terminus was also another aspect of Jupiter, who had had to agree to cohabit with the god of boundaries in a temple whose roof had a hole in it, as sacrifices could be made to him only in the open air (Serv., Aen., 9, 446), which was true for the majority of public cults.

As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them … you do not have art, you have chaos, and to a large extent that's what we've had.

If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient?