Quotes About Boundaries

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM. JUST SMILE AND STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

When you find success, sometimes you have to leave old friends behind. And sometimes you have to leave family members behind. It's sad and heartbreaking, but it must be done. You cannot bring everybody with you, because some will resent you and drag you down to a level that makes them feel more comfortable.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM.

Fish say, they have their stream and pond;But is there anything beyond?

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.

This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration—when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.

That's the problem with doing the wrong things. You're never satisfied. At some point, the misbehavior loses its thrill, and you need to seek out something that pushes more boundaries.

If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.

True love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay?

In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

A real friend, he'd say, is the one who, when you say you need for them to kill someone for you, asks only, "And where did you want me to dump the body?" I understood that it was hyperbole, but I saw him do barely less more than once, to exhaust himself in research and effort to him his people. Which is how he divided the whole world: his people and everyone else.

Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.

If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.