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Quotes About Boundaries

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
~ C. Wright Mills
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.
~ Bernard Baruch
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
~ James Howell
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.
~ Charles Stewart Parnell
I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
~ Yves Montand
A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.
~ Tony Gaskins
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
~ Warsan Shire
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
~ Leopold von Ranke
The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.
~ Chief Joseph
You know I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.
~ Lil B
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
~ Charles Dickens
There is a camera is between a man and a woman.
~ Nobuyoshi Araki
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
~ Lauren Bacall
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
~ Malcolm X
How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?
~ Philo
It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.
~ Steve Harvey
A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.
~ W. Edwards Deming
I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."
~ Andre Benjamin
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
~ Rene Char
You don't mow another man's lawn!
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.
~ Charles Hummel