Quotes About Boundaries

Don't touch my plumtree! Said my friend and saying so... Broke the branch for me

We live in a world that worships limitations

Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

It was something she'd told him off about on more than one occasion, this tendency to offer up his private sadnesses as a form of mass entertainment.

Some people should never meet.

Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

give my family an inch and they'll move into your house and start redecorating.

Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.

The final step into feral is murder. We stand between that and you. We say, when no one else will, There are rules here. There are limits. There are boundaries that don't move.

None of them say anything. They keep their eyes closed. They lie still and feel the world change shape around them and inside them, feel the boundaries set solid; feel the wild left outside, to prowl perimeters till it thins into something imagined, something forgotten.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space.

But more women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

Yes means yes and no means no, but what is the meaning of silence?

More women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. —CLAUDIA RANKINE

but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.