Quotes About Boundaries

The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.

American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody.

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.

Lo amaba, de verdad lo amaba. Pero sólo hasta cierto punto. Más allá de ese punto, había algo opaco en mí que no cedía. Podía ver la opacidad. Podía palparla y saborearla.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives.

The real beauty's "No" does not offend, you know.

Oh, that's just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me "we," when I sleep at night you're driving around in my truck, and you think it's a bad idea to mess with other people's lives?

How can you not help having sex with someone?

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

Best-selling novelist Paul Tremblay writes that horror really works only when it "push[es] and prod[s] at moral boundaries" and forces its audience to "confront personal and societal taboos." In fact, he suggests that horror films need a "progressive" vision to really pull us out to sea on a dark tide.

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.

When I tell you to go out and tell one of these palookas that I'm out, go out and tell 'em I'm out. Don't have these buzzards walk in on me. When I don't wanna see 'em I don't...don't look at me that way.

Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

the dead are not separate from the living each has one foot in the unknown and cannot speak for the other

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.