Quotes About Boundaries

You can't kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.

So many things constrain us, from so many directions.

Agatha: I don't want anyone dying on my behalf. Not even you ! Tarvek: Why, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since Sturmhalten. Agatha: Treasure it, and get out !

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.

The more you want to explain about a black swan event like the storming of the Bastille," wrote the sociologist Duncan Watts, "the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

Globalization is not just about changing relations between the 'inside' of the nation-state and the 'outside' of the international system. It cuts across received categories, creating myriad multilayered intersections, overlapping playing fields, and actors skilled at working across these boundaries. People are at once rooted and rootless, local producers and global consumers, threatened in their identities yet continually remaking those identities.

You're the best friend I ever had who I've never been to bed with,' Paul had once said to Duncan.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Rules apply to foremen and machinists, to clerks, sergeants, and vice-presidents, yet no durable organization is able to hold human experience to these formally defined roles. In actual practice, men tend to interact as many-faceted persons, adjusting to the daily round in ways that spill over the neat boundaries set by their assigned roles.

On the one hand philosophy is like any other human endeavour, situated within and confined by the context of its day and yet on the other hand, it tries to wrestle with and expand the boundaries of current thought.

Les limites existent seulement dans l'esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver." (The limits exist only in the minds of those who can not dream)

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Your body and your mind are, together, your primary country of allegiance. As a feminist, you must know - and know how to defend - your country and its boundaries.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attention, 'I am about as sexually active as a bag of spinach, and if you want to keep me on the porch and not out in the park somewhere behind the bushes, you'll keep the stupid porch light off when I come home with a boy.

Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively," says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, "like having a set of limitations to explore.

When it's harder to live, is life more absolute? On my mute senses evening shores, also mute is the old reason defining my selfhood: it is an inner path a silent underwood where all is nature. Toilsome labor of obscure existence, you alone are necessary... And gently you drive me beyond human boundaries

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

La définition la plus stricte et la plus restreinte de l'écrivain (etc.), que nous acceptons aujourd'hui comme allant de soi, est le produit d'une longue série d'exclusions ou d'excommunications visant à refuser l'existence en tant qu'écrivains dignes de ce nom à toutes sortes de producteurs qui pouvaient se vivre comme écrivains au nom d'une définition plus large et plus lâche de la profession.

à la différence notamment du champ universitaire, par un très faible degré de codification et, du même coup, par l'extrême perméabilité de leurs frontières et l'extrême diversité de la définition des postes qu'ils offrent et, du même coup, des principes de légitimité qui s'y affrontent

I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.