Quotes About Boundaries

If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

Dude. Message understood. But you call me Your Highness again, and I'll kick your ass.

You don't always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else's problems. Sometimes it's okay to let somebody else worry about you.

La fenêtre était la frontière entre la lumière horrible et l'admirable obscurité, entre les cabinets et l'infini, entre l'hygiénique et l'impossible à laver, entre la chasse d'eau et le ciel. Aussi longtemps qu'il existerait des fenêtres, le moindre humain de la terre aurait sa part de liberté.

Il est très difficile de savoir où s'arrêter. C'est encore ce problème de la frontière : l'autre passe par votre vie, il faut accepter qu'il puisse en sortir aussi facilement qu'il y est entré.

You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?

I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

Women know when a man touches them inappropriately. Hugging one man doesn't mean it is an invitation. Wearing nail polish isn't an invitation.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a marvel not only of technology but also of international cooeperation.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

I am a celebrity, but I don't want people standing outside my wedding venue.

I love having my personal life. Hence why I didn't sell my wedding to a magazine.

Things like, when a total stranger says, 'I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,' that can be a bit tiresome. But it's a high-class problem. It doesn't hurt my feelings.

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

Plenty of casual daters will throw you off with maddening phrases like 'I'm just enjoying having fun with you.' This doesn't make them a bad person, but it's your call now how to respond. Just don't assume 'having fun' or any such cliche means they're going to suddenly decide they want a relationship next week.

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she's having a girls' weekend, do not show up with a bottle of rose. No one wants to see your face there.