Quotes About Boundaries

No can be a love word.

It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

When asked in 2006 by the ladies of The View how he would react if his then twenty-four-year-old daughter Ivanka posed for Playboy: "I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

Are national boundaries sacred? Are they ordained by God? do the citizens of a rich nation have the right to use their abundant resources just for themselves? Or to keep out immigrants from poor nations who seek greater economic opportunity?

Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence.

we are reluctant to admit that the poetic imagination sets the bounds for human thought. At the heart of philosophy's quarrel with poetry is the fear that the imagination goes all the way down—that there is nothing we talk about that we might not have talked of differently.

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro.

I urge every parent to become a Loving Hard-Ass Parent.

My petunias," she tells me in a flat voice, "are none of your business.

We try to press against the boundaries of what we are allowed, walk a step past the edge. Our records will be scrutinized by Congress one day and decisions on whether to enlarge our jurisdiction will be made.

People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned.

Look,' I said, 'I'm gonna help you out. When a person who works retail is off duty, we don't do nothing for nobody—unless that person asks nice.' 'Wow. You could never be a high school teacher.

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter. The main thing is to keep people from bothering you.

Nell found adults to be constrained. It was as if sometime during their late youth, someone had drawn a box for them to step into. The box had four sides, a bottom, and a top; the adult would hop in—willingly, it seemed—and never get out again.

There were certain rules in life that had to be adhered to. You simply couldn't come between a person and his child. That would be selfish and unforgivable.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.

Los limites de mi lenguaje son los limites de mi mundo