Quotes About Boundaries

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

If someone gets irritated with your presence, then move out. You have no space there.

You will give to those whom don't appreciate you, until you've had enough of accepting less than you deserve

Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.

I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

Sarát levetkÅ'ztetni gátlástalan cselekedet volt, szinte vandalizmus, mint szabadon ereszteni egy állatkert lakóit vagy felrobbantani egy gátat.

You don't like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too fucking bad. I have you under oath. I own you.

Bosch took a step toward him. "Olivas, let's get something clear before we go anywhere. You call me 'Hotshot' again and I'm going to shove the file up your ass without taking it out of my briefcase.

Like our padded cell? He poked the insulated walls. It's like living in a vagina.

Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.

The reality is that love of God is expressed fully as love of both friend and enemy.  It recognizes in everyone the image of God. Love is all-inclusive. Love knows no boundaries or limits. Love God, love your neighbor, love your enemy, this is the Greatest Commandment.

I'm now convinced that the worst thing a man can do with a telephone, without breaking the law, is to call someone he doesn't know and try to sell that person something he doesn't want.

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into a corner. That's a man talking, muttered Hana.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.

If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.

We were Germans, English, Hungarian, African — all of us insignificant to them. Gradually we became nationless. I came to hate nations. We are deformed by nation-states.