logo

Quotes About Borders

it was considered a warrior's greatest challenge to rise beyond his own beliefs. Now it is seen as a tactless assault against one's identity. In my day, we would chase anger to its borders, cutting through thorn and weed until we found our way to the open fields of awareness.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
~ Milan Kundera
Extremes means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
~ Milan Kundera
extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.
~ Milan Kundera
Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a vailed longing for death.
~ Milan Kundera
Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.
~ Milan Kundera
The darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us.
~ Milan Kundera
find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest
~ Bram Stoker
Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war?   A warrior from the borders came, a buckler o'er his shoulder, a claymore swingin' at his side, there's no' a beast who's bolder!   O Rakkety Tam has sold his sword, Ah scarce believe he's done it. He swore an oath untae a fool, who took his pledge upon it!
~ Brian Jacques
To the migrants from outside who have to cross borders and leave their countries behind at the price of immense tragedies, we must from now on add the migrants from inside who, while remaining in place, are experiencing the drama of seeing themselves left behind by their own countries.
~ Bruno Latour
The nation was under siege by bloodthirsty hordes charging like rabid wolverines across the borders.
~ Carl Hiaasen
You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.
~ Terry Pratchett
Where does America end and Mexico begin? This is its own country, borderless by nature, unowned, unbowed, complete. Boundaries are fears made manifest, designed to protect us. I don't want protection, I want freedom.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
~ Marsha Blackburn
The church may not function as a fearful border guard, but rather as one who brings good tidings (Romans 10:15; Isaiah 52:7 ... For Christ died for us 'while we were yet sinners, while we were enemies' (Romans 5:8,10). All hardness, imprudence and rashness can only be signs that she has forgotten the gracious overstepping of the boundaries at her birth.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
American—a child not of old borders and ancient alliances, but of ideals and liberty.
~ Brian Kilmeade
But then is no one at home any longer?" No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.
~ Bruno Latour
Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.
~ Herman Melville
En este mundo, compañeros, el Pecado, si paga el viaje, puede ir libremente, y sin pasaporte, mientras que la Virtud, si es pobre, es detenida en todas las fronteras.
~ Herman Melville
They command a fascination, however reluctant, that borders on psychic masturbation.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other economic and social platforms are not trying to build businesses, they are trying to build countries. Countries with laws, law enforcement, borders, and economic policy.
~ Hank Green
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
~ Elliott Abrams