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Quotes About Boundaries

Los extremos son la frontera tras la cual termina la vida y la pasión por el extremismo en el arte y en la política es una velada ansia de muerte
~ Milan Kundera
Es gibt aber noch eine dritte, geheimnisvolle und beunruhigende Kategorie von Frauen. Jene, mit denen wir weder etwas haben durften noch konnten. Sie haben uns gefallen, wir haben ihnen gefallen, haben aber sofort begriffen, dass wir sie nicht haben können, weil wir uns mit ihnen jenseits der Grenze befunden hätten.
~ Milan Kundera
Indeed, the only serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breaches. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
~ Milan Kundera
A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
~ Milan Kundera
But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.
~ Patricia Briggs
Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.
~ Paulo Coelho
That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
~ Paulo Coelho
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
~ Orson Scott Card
I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.
~ Rajashree Choudhury
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
~ Randy Jackson
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
~ Rita Dove
My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me
~ Robert Creeley
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.
~ Sarah Chalke
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.
~ Sloane Crosley
I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.
~ Steven Shainberg
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
~ Tom Robbins
You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.
~ Tony Robbins
Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
~ Walter Scott
Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Never mingle love and business.
~ Anthony Trollope
Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
~ Bai Ling
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison