Quotes About Boundaries

Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist. ... it is in general a necessary condition of free institutions that the boundaries of governments should coincide in the main with those of nationalities.

The story is alternately hopeful and discouraging. Parish boundaries in the urban North served to foster communities of the sort admired by contemporary intellectuals at one historical moment, but proved unable to separate "community" from racial mythology at another. Parochial institutions strengthened individuals while occasionally becoming rallying points for bigotry. The extant literature on religion and race sidesteps this complexity.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

It's because I love you that I don't want you to go." "My God, Bill, I don't want that kind of love. 'I love you, so hold still while I tie you down.' What hurts is that it's you doing it. If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

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True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

As survivors, we've been conditioned to be victims sexually. Many of us have never learned to say no or to set limits on our sexual activities...To heal, it's important that we take control, that we make active choices concerning if, when, and how we want to explore sexuality. Especially in the beginning, you need to put your own needs about sex ahead of anyone else's.

We all have a right to our private lives; it's living a secret life that gets us in trouble.

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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

We accept that some people don't want us and we go on to the next. We don't force people to love us.

If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale.

Because you love yourself, you are no longer interested in men who ignore you, cheat on you, hurt you either physically or emotionally, and, of course, any man who can live without you.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.

Me duele que hoy ya no existan límites, como antes de las columnas de Hércules, porque me gustaría ser la primera en saltarme esas barreras.

Avevo sempre rimpianto che, ai tempi moderni, non ci fosse più sulla terra qualche limite vietato, come per gli antichi le Colonne d'Ercole, perché mi sarebbe piaciuto di oltrepassarlo io per primo, sfidando il divieto con la mia audacia.

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex--they should draw the line at goats.

And George Michael really didn't want to know. I nagged at him because I was worried and because mutual friends kept contacting me, asking if I could do something. He wrote an open letter to Heat magazine, most of which was concerned with telling me, at considerable length, to fuck off and mind my own business

Never compare your life with someone else's life. For, you have no idea what he or she does secretly i.e. behind your back.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George

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In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.