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Quotes About Boundaries

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.
~ Robert Pattinson
Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.
~ Robert Riskin
By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
~ Seth Godin
He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I wouldn't even let your dad talk about . . .
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Women should not let lovers read the books they write.
~ Marguerite Duras
Sen bu olay? s?kça anlat?yorsundur, dedim. ... Hay?r, dedi, bunu anlatm?yorum...Her ÅŸey herkese anlat?lmaz...
~ Marguerite Duras
Ce royaume aux frontières de la peau, dont nous nous croyons les princes, et où nous sommes prisonniers.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
~ Marian Keyes
Political correctness is a minefield
~ Marian Keyes
Creating a healthy relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country. The borders are always under threat and every day you have to shore them up. So when something in the country implodes, the shockwaves move outwards and the borders push back until eventually the crisis subsides …
~ Marian Keyes
No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
~ Marian Keyes
Wanneer kinderen groter worden verdedigen ze hun geheimen uit alle macht. Anders zouden ze door hun moeders worden verslonden. Het ergste wat ik ken zijn jongelui die alles met hun moeder delen. Die worden nooit vrij.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I always tell my students that you can do anything you can get away with, that implausibility is a problem of style. If people bring issues of plausibility to bear on what you're doing, you're not doing it well enough.
~ Marilynne Robinson
on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by
~ Mario Puzo
Dos que trabajan juntos no deben encamarse, el amor y el trabajo son incompatibles, encamarse rima con pelearse. Así
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?
~ Marion Woodman
Anger is uncomfortable; it is useful; it announces our boundaries and can goad us in the direction of our dreams; if unchanneled, it is a highly destructive force; if channeled for change, it is a booster rocket.
~ Mark Bryan
To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.
~ Mark Driscoll
Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.
~ Mark Rutland
There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren
~ Mark Steyn
Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to steam her open.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
you are out of the field of the novel
~ Anthony Burgess