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Quotes About Boundaries

The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.
~ Maggie Nelson
Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Keeping a professional distance had never been what Vince O'Mally did best. Hell, it was the one thing he wished he could do
~ Maggie Shayne
for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.
~ Unknown
Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.
~ Malorie Blackman
You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic
~ Unknown
As in if-the-van-is-a-rockin'-don't-come-a-knockin'?" asked Austin.
~ Mandy M. Roth
I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.
~ Unknown
If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.
~ Unknown
Great art picks up where nature ends.
~ Marc Chagall
Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.
~ Marc Jacobs
Take what you will from that story, but remember the bottom line: if people don't want to know about something, don't tell them about it.
~ Marc MacYoung
and an eastern half that included the Balkans, Greece, Palestine and Egypt.
~ Unknown
which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length
~ Unknown
north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.
~ Unknown
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
~ Marc Newson
Il y a des couples heureux, des moitiés qui se respectent mutuellement. D'ailleurs, j'ai eu beau ne pas me séparer de ma femme et souffrir de ses empiétements, sur divers plans je me suis toujours conduit comme un célibataire.
~ Marcel Jouhandeau
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
~ Marcel Proust
The links between another person and ourselves exist only in our minds. Memory weakens them as it fades, and despite the illusions which we hope will deceive us and with which, whether from love, friendship, politeness, human respect or from duty, we hope to deceive others, we exist on our own. Man is a being who cannot move beyond his own boundaries, who knows others only within himself, and if he alleges the contrary, he is lying.
~ Marcel Proust
Love you Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
~ John Ray
You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.
~ John Sandford
Pee on these plants, and you will be shot; Survivors will be shot again.
~ John Sandford
Don't get your honey where you get your money
~ John Sandford
Lucas glanced at him and said, with a grin, "Bell is sometimes too social . . . if you know what I mean." "He talks too much," Robertson said. "But he's a good guy," Lucas said. "Yeah, he is," Robertson said. He leaned back in the seat and put his feet up on the dash, caught himself and said, "Whoops. Sorry about that.
~ John Sandford