Top 100 Quotes About Boundaries
#1. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#3. I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
Alexa Vega
#4. No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Margaret Sanger
#5. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
Ratan Tata
#6. The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
Agnes Varda
#7. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman
#8. Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.
Travis Bradberry
#9. I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.
Rene Russo
#10. When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6
Beth Moore
#11. Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
Tom Chatfield
#12. In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!
Tom Six
#13. 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.
Narendra Modi
#14. As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name.
Peter Milligan
#15. The beauty of a society is not just in the laws upon which the society revolves, but how the society regards, upholds and obeys the laws which set boundaries for a beautiful and a harmonious society!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.
Jennifer Lopez
#17. I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.
Henri Nouwen
#18. In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.
Theodore Dalrymple
#19. I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Julia L. Roberts
#20. We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
Cliff Martinez
#23. There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
Jillian Mayer
#24. If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.
Adelyn Birch
#25. Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.
Kelley Armstrong
#26. I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.
Paul Weller
#27. You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#28. This is complicated," you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. "But," you said, "no, not but. I love you.
Daniel Handler
#29. If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.
Mike Breen
#30. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
James Van Der Beek
#31. Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
Annie Lennox
#32. I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan Simmons
#33. Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.
Mark Mason
#34. Children are becoming disobedient ... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.
Cesar Millan
#35. If she'd foreseen that Alphinland was going to last so long and be so successful, she would have planned it better. It would have had a shape, a more defined structure; it would have had boundaries. As it is, it's grown like urban sprawl. Not
Margaret Atwood
#36. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Hakeem Olajuwon
#37. Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
Bonnie Wright
#38. I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
Alessandro Nivola
#39. If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.
John McPhee
#40. Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchner
#41. Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.
Colleen Doran
#42. I think back to my banter with Cash about sexual harassment. I don't doubt he pushes the boundaries, but never once did I get the impression he might force himself on me or make unwanted advances. I just hope to God he doesn't know that his advances aren't unwanted. I just wish they were.
M. Leighton
#43. Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries have defined for all of us.
Leslie Weisman
#44. Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
Peter Agre
#46. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#47. people push themselves through shyness, doubt, and fear. They push boundaries. They push limits. They push beyond what's expected. It
Richard St. John
#48. It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.
Kat Lahr
#49. It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#50. How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours - and the humans too - would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air." "I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you're a baby.
T.H. White
#51. Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#52. When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.
Richard G. Scott
#53. Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#54. The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
Charles Stanley
#55. So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
Steven Chu
#56. Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
Jon Lord
#57. he expects me to elaborate. Boundaries. These damn people need boundaries. "So no boyfriend, but you're not a virgin?" he prods, seeming to delight
C.M. Owens
#58. Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
Saul Bellow
#59. If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.
Timothy Ferriss
#60. I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
Alexander Scriabin
#61. A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
Gerhard Richter
#62. Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
Sydney J. Harris
#63. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Karin Slaughter
#64. I have always been interested in innovation but I was never able to find innovation inside of disciplinary boundaries.
Dror Benshetrit
#65. But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.
Danny Wallace
#66. If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.
Tariq Ramadan
#67. Monsters serve both to mark the fault-lines but also, subversively, to signal the fragility of such boundaries.
Elaine Graham
#68. God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times
Sunday Adelaja
#69. If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.
Thomas Muller
#70. As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
Wayne Dyer
#71. It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
Levi Woodbury
#72. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Tommy Shaw
#73. What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.
Kadir Nelson
#75. There's no such thing as boundaries only limits that get pushed further and further.
Travis Pastrana
#76. Cinema has no boundaries ... we all belong to the same artistic community.
Bruce Willis
#77. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?
Howard Zinn
#78. The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
#79. The boundaries of my world had shrunk, but I was still alive, and as long as I could go on breathing and farting and thinking my thoughts, what difference did it make where I was?
Paul Auster
#82. I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.
Howard Zinn
#83. A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.
Michael Kumhof
#84. Proverbs 22:3 says that "the prudent man sees the evil and hides himself." Sometimes physically removing yourself from a situation will help maintain boundaries. You can do this to replenish yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually after you have given to your limit, as Jesus often did.
Henry Cloud
#85. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough
Jeanette Winterson
#86. In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
Victor Hugo
#87. There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
Samantha Harvey
#88. To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.
Amit Ray
#89. Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#90. Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce
#91. It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.
Dewitt Jones
#92. Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.
Amy Bloom
#93. Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.
Anita Brookner
#94. Freedom, freed of all external boundaries, are still confined within us--their sensitivity often causing bewilderment.
Mu Xin
#95. On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.
Patty Houser
#96. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
John C. Maxwell
#97. There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Robert Plant
#98. I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.
Danielle De Niese
#99. My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending
M. Christina White
#100. I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.
Michael Jackson
