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Quotes About Boundaries

Tell me how you need us." "I think this will be just the two of us." But as Jon took up his fork, he gave Matt a look. "Still, thanks for all of it. Thanks for being here when I needed it. As usual." "I will not be hugged," Matt said sternly. Jon considered the food. "You"re awfully nurturing for someone who doesn"t hug." "Eat it and shut up, or you"re fired.
~ Joey W. Hill
I have my limits, Lauren," he said, low. She knew it, could feel the caged beast hurling against his bars, knew how close he was.
~ Joey W. Hill
It's never going to be that way with us. Anything you say "stop" about, I respect. No apologies, no guilt on your part, no feeling like you've disappointed me. I want you to feel comfortable saying it. You want to get out of here now?.
~ Joey W. Hill
Naughty Bits Part III Bound to Please
~ Joey W. Hill
real civilization cannot exist in the absence of a certain play-element, for civilization presupposes limitation and mastery of the self, the ability not to confuse its own tendencies with the ultimate and highest goal, but to understand that it is enclosed within certain bounds freely accepted.
~ Johan Huizinga
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, is that any of your business?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.
~ Michelle Trachtenberg
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
~ Terry Eagleton
When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
~ John Spence
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
~ Kevin Spacey
I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.
~ Lauren London
Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
~ Lena Dunham
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
~ Ashley Judd
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
~ Imogen Cunningham
From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
~ Tyra Banks
I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
~ Michael Caine
I like business and personal life to be distinct.
~ Carter Burwell
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
~ Christian Slater