Quotes About Boundaries

Jesus' meal practice was about inclusion in a society with sharp social boundaries.

That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time--that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permission to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but that they still liked joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kind of was (239).

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

Parents who let teens run around with unearned adult freedoms are naive and stupid.

Do you always have to keep your claws out and sharp? Has it ever occurred to you that some of us might just want to be friendly?

between the two fences were rolls of razor wire: more effective than dogs and less likely to eat drugged steaks.

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.' We had all simultaneously realised that our home was not limitless – there was an edge to our existence.

The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

stay, do so in peace and love. Above all, free yourself from the control of others by making your own choices and recognizing your own boundaries.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

There's a limit to your love.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience." – James D. Wilson

Those who limit themselves with imaginary boxes of being close to home and always inside their comfort zone. What is the fun and romance in that

Neither nations nor children should be conceived in public.

In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate, topography, microbes, and technology alter the logic of violence. They transform the way people organize their livelihoods and defend themselves.

Just don't plan on hugs every time I see you." "The feeling's mutual.

Don't mess with Teresa. If I teach you nothing else in life, it's that. Don't mess with Teresa.

We have all been in roomsWe cannot die in.

Leisure' as a distinct non-work time, whether in the form of the holiday, weekend, or evening, was a result of the disciplined and bounded work time created by capitalist production.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.