Quotes About Boundaries

There is a proper measure in things. There are, finally, certain boundaries short of and beyond which what is right cannot exist").

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestras convicciones más arraigadas, más indubitables, son las más sospechosas. Ellas constituyen nuestro límite, nuestros confines, nuestra prisión" (José Ortega y Gasset)

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head." He

never let an asshole rent space in your head.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Never get too much emotionally attached with. You will find it difficult to detach in future.

My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community.

Well, play something quieter!" Spiderleg snapped. "I don't envy you, Graystripe. Two kits are hard enough." Then he yelped in pain. "When I told you to play something else, Toadkit, I didn't mean attacking my tail!

Don't go there again," Pinestar growled. "You're a Clan cat, not a kittypet!

Sandpaw, it doesn't matter that the line is wobbly. Boundaries aren't whisker-straight, are they?

Jaypaw wished she wouldn't keep trying to mother him. He had Squirrelflight for that; Leafpool was just his mentor.

Looking for you!" "Spying on me!" Hollypaw flinched. "You shouldn't be here, playing with her!" She glared at Heatherpaw. "Why not? She's just a friend." "A friend from another Clan!" "You're friends with Willowpaw!" "I don't sneak off every night to see her." Lionpaw opened his mouth to object, but no words came out.

I wish to create a new rule for the warrior code: that each Clan has the right to be proud and independent, but in times of trouble they must forget their boundaries and fight side by side to protect the four. Each Clan must help the others so that no Clan will fall.

You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

But don't go thinking I owe you any favors, mister. :-)

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.