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Quotes About Boundary

You can only do so much theatre.
~ Victor Garber
me. If you come down here one more time I'm going to call Allison and suggest she have you committed." "Seriously,
~ Robyn Carr
I now see clearly that our intellect cannot be satisfied until that truth enlighten it beyond whose boundary no further truth extends. In that truth, like a wild beast in its den, it rests once it has made its way there—and it can do that, or else its every wish would be in vain. —Paradiso IV:124–129
~ Rod Dreher
they hardly ever ventured very far from the sea.
~ Roderick Beaton
La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.
~ Romain Gary
No, I mean your quandary. An iffy dimension where I'm afraid for or worried about one of my daughters, like you, where I cross a boundary and then she gets pissed.' 'So you're saying what happened is normal?' 'I think so. It's easy to overstep out of worry. It can infuriate them, though sometimes they understand later on.' I was
~ Louise Erdrich
Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?
~ Lucy Grealy
5.641 [...] Das philosophische Ich ist nicht der Mensch, nicht der menschliche Körper, oder die menschliche Seele, von der die Psychologie handelt, sondern das metaphysische Subjekt, die Grenze - nicht ein Teil - der Welt.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
We never arrive at fundamental propositions in the course of our investigation; we get to the boundary of language which stops us from asking further questions. We don't get to the bottom of things, but reach a point where we can go no further, where we cannot ask further questions.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.
~ Ludwing Wittgenstein
It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.
~ Lydia Millet
ensure that your aircraft will not penetrate this area.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Bir basketbol oyuncusu sadece yeterince uzun olmal? ve ayn? durum zeka için de geçerli. Zekan?n bir eÅŸiÄŸi var.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~ Rossiter W. Raymond
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.
~ Anais Nin
There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
~ Anais Nin
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
~ Anais Nin
The line between the 'mechanical' and the 'intelligent' was very, very slightly blurred.
~ Andrew Hodges
Not unless he crossed the line.' Holly supposed she should let this go, but she was tired of Vera's bullying. 'Ah, that line . . .' Vera leaned back in her chair with her eyes half-closed. 'If only we knew exactly where it was.' There
~ Ann Cleeves
Integrity consists of many things, but it generally requires us to avoid behavior that readily leads to shame or remorse. The ethical terrain here extends well beyond the question of honesty—but to truly have integrity, we must not feel the need to lie about our personal lives. To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.
~ Sam Harris
To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.
~ Sam Harris
We can't travel beyond the edge of the universe without exceeding the speed of light, which is theoretically impossible. That's what you would expect in a simulation. You would have some sort of rule of physics to keep the simulated people from traveling beyond the edges. Here I'm assuming the universe is expanding at the same rate as the light that is traveling in all directions, so we can never catch up to it.
~ Scott Adams
Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
~ John Dryden
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
~ Alexia Fast