Quotes About Boundaries

Memory itself is a political event. Social structures are often so powerful that they actually format memory into accepted boundaries, denying the validity of experiences outside the parameters of accepted social interpretations and distorting and fragmenting experience. Consequently, creating spaces for re-memory may be a profoundly liberating and energizing experience.

The only power you have is the word no.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.

Don't take any shit from anybody.?

A friend from work should be a compartmentalized and exclusive friendship; that is, my friend from work, as opposed to our friend from my work. Everyone should be free to go to lunch or dinner with a good friend from work without your significant other sitting there at the table letting go with bull-snort exhales of boredom laced with rising irritation while you and your friend are having what amounts to a private conversation about office intrigue.

Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

DO NOT TOUCH ME YOU VILE THING!!!

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

I don't disrespect anybody, but if I get disrespected, I'm over with you.

You know, Blissy, just because you share blood with someone doesn't mean you have to like them,

Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.

Get off my phone! What's on your mind, pal!

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

You may feel love and compassion for everyone, but that does not mean you can continue to be in environments or with people who are hostile or toxic. You may need to leave.

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.

I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the plains, Where the streets have no names.

You were right, Brad, in that I did find that Mark is not as evil as I had believed and a lot more desperate than I had thought. And it's not my problem anymore. I told him I'd be as good a friend to him as I could, and that I couldn't rescue him. I had tried, and it just hadn't worked.

Aqua cleared his throat. Then he sang the last lines in his beautiful, rich voice: "Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don't let 'em back in your life.

Women have been conditioned to please. We are responsible not just for ourselves but everyone in our orbit. We think it is our job to comfort the man. We think we can make things better by sacrificing a bit of ourselves. But you're also right to ask. It's the first thing I tell my clients: If you're ready to end it, end it. Make a clean break and don't look back. You don't owe him anything.