boundaries quotes

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

My range is limited.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Men must know their limitations.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.