Quotes About Boundary

The witching hour," Daniel always called this time of day. He used to go out in it, every evening, and have a last cigarette as he walked the perimeter of the garden. He liked the moment, he said, when it was neither day nor night, but indefinably both.

Suzy Zeus is tense as stemware, not explosive, just on edge— needs a ten-foot wall around her, or at least a ten-foot hedge, Suzy's straining, teeth to toenails, easing backward on the ledge.

In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.

FOGGING is a very effective skill for desensitizing you to criticism and actually reducing the frequency of criticism from others. It rapidly sets up a psychological distance, boundary lines between you and the person you FOG.

the boundary agreed between the king and his erstwhile enemy, Guthrum,

In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Not my species, not my problem.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

If it's your limit, you can't exceed it. If you exceed it, it's not your limit.

NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs

From the second month on, dim awareness of the need-satisfying object marks the beginning of the phase of normal symbiosis, in which the infant behaves and functions as though he and his mother were an omnipotent system—a dual unity within one common boundary.

EDITOR'S NOTES Poetry Diary of Tolstoy; Dutton, p. 84: "Where the boundary between prose and poetry lies, I shall never be able to understand. The question is raised in manuals of style, yet the answer to it lies beyond me. Poetry is verse: prose is not verse. Or else poetry is everything with the exception of business documents and school books.

Since many cutters come from enmeshed families—where identity, family role, and boundary are confused—the task of establishing an independent identity is much more difficult. And if a girl has only a tenuous internal representation of herself to begin with, she may fear that the physical changes wrought by puberty will make her into someone else—a stranger unrecognizable even to herself.

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

A hole is defined by its edges, and these are not part of the hole. So a hole can exist only if there is something that is not a hole.

trying to establish the boundary between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted was like trying to determine when twilight ended and dusk began.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

There is a statue of limitation.