Quotes About Boundaries

Never give advice until you are sure the other person wants it.

Misery loves company, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the invitation.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

that we may see ourselves more accurately on this continent of watersheds and life-communities—plant zones, physiographic provinces, culture areas; following natural boundaries. The "U.S.A." and its states and counties are arbitrary and inaccurate impositions on what is really here.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl's morality story wasn't embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don't have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.

She smiled the infinitely kind smile of a woman who will not do what you ask.

It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began.

Setting boundaries on human behavior is the job of law, custom, and etiquette, not evolutionary psychology.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

You can prick your finger ... Just don't finger your prick.

You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get past around a minute, minute-and-a-half, I gotta get the f*** outta there.

Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.

I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get up past around... a minute, minute and a half, I gotta get the fuck out of there. And my reason for this... my reason is one that you may share, possibly. I have a very low tolerance level for stupid bullshit.

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

They give you a colouring book and some crayons, and tell you, be creative...but don't go outside the lines.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released. Lydgate's advice

for it was nearly five o'clock; and if people are to quarrel often, it follows as a corollary that their quarrels cannot be protracted beyond certain limits.

Never live with someone that won the Heisman.