Boundaries Quotes - Page 32

• Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Moving, Knowing

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• For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now.

  Al Gore

  Strong, Real, Ocean

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Running, Knowledge

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• We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Party, Home

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Temptation, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Moon, Space, Support

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• Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Order, Office

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• Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

  Colin Thubron

  Dream, Adventure, Men

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• If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

  Jeanne Gang

  People, Design, Want

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• There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t think in terms of boundaries that limit what the market might do. If there is any lesson I have learned in the nearly twenty years that I’ve been in this business, it is that the unexpected and the impossible happen every now and then

  Richard Dennis

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

  Philippe Petit

  Other Worlds, Feelings, Human Condition

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• I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

  Masaru Emoto

  Government, Order, People

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• You push so far past the normal boundaries of what’s O.K. in society. I’m always fully aware of, ‘You can’t do this’… When someone really believes in what they’re saying, but it’s crazy, it’s like my favorite thing on earth… [But] Crazy’s just crazy and there’s nowhere to go. You can have a point of view, it can be very strange, but we have to know your reasoning.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Crazy, Believe, Past

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• The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?

  Selma Blair

  Guy, Problem, Enough

  "Selma Blair's Praying for A Breakout Role". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 11, 2011.

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• In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Dance, Moving, Soul

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• 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

  Country, War, Men

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, War, Cannons

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Art, Boys

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• From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Sisterhood, Personality, Firsts

  Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

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• 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.

  George Iles

  Science, Fields, Common

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

  Trelise Cooper

  Fashion, Mean, Design

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• 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

  Couple, Love You, Short Cute Love

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• The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.

  Olara Otunnu

  Religious, Children, Political

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• Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.

  Colleen Doran

  People, Needs, Emptiness

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2014

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• The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Reality, Oneness, People

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