Quotes About Boundaries

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

There is great comfort in knowing that those who love you love you enough to take the responsibility for marking out the permissible.

We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

Nooo. Not today, of all days. She'd begged her mom not to invite her boyfriends over. And Lizette always assured her that she'd stop, that their home would be a no-man zone.

How," she started, "do you explain this to people?" "I don't." "That simple, huh?" Eva was awed. "It's ours," he said simply. "Sacred.

Believe it or not, I have boundaries.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I understand loving someone, but not losing yourself to that degree. It's not healthy.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Do not disturb!' 'No molestar!'—ever get the idea some things aren't translating right?

That's the key to love: Never explain yourself. If a woman attacks, and your response is explanations, then strap on a helmet.

Just because I'm your attorney, don't assume you can come to me with problems.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

What I've learned from him is that boundaries are liberating. They can be readjusted all the time, but it's important to have them...If you burn out, no one's going to benefit. So it's in everyone's interest for you to do what you can and then make it clear that you can do no more.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

There's no rules that say you can't have a friend at ringside. The rules say the friend can't interfere.

For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

Mahesh has no time to do anything apart from shooting for his films. And any free time he has is family time. He doesn't even step out to meet friends.

I don't know why there is so much noise on doing intimate scenes.

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.