Best 446 quotes in «boundaries quotes» category

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

Ain't no boundaries, ain't no limits.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me.

A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

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.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

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.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Each personal limit you exceed, each boundary you cross, verifies that most limits are indeed self imposed. Your potential and possibilities are far greater than you can ever imagine. You are capable of far more than you ever thought.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Greed has no boundaries

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.