Quotes About Boundary

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point—some obscure and secret boundary—a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.

Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole

She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.

Someone intruding within 18 inches without consent is regarded as threatening or uncomfortable behavior.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

purlieus of London

Everyone can make the wrong decision—in fact, everyone will sometimes make a wrong decision. But no one needs to make a decision which, on its face, falls short of satisfying the boundary conditions.

So the limit of sentience (using the term as a convenient if not strictly accurate shorthand for the capacity to suffer and/or experience enjoyment) is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

create parameters, set it off, see what happens'

He is on the precipice of cheating, maybe, which in itself is a kind of thrill for him, and yet, if he thinks about it too much he knows it is the same thing. On the precipice or over the precipice, once you're there, you're there.

Regarde ce lit c'est le bord de l'autre monde dit la putain saoule

If we don't put our foot down, they will release every man and his dog.