237 Boundaries Quotes

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Don't bring negative to my door.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

'You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.'

Fidelity is important as long as it's pure. But the moment it goes against your insides - if you want to be somewhere else, if she wants to dabble - then you need to make a change. (1998)

Barbara Walters: So, Kate, do you even own a skirt? Katharine Hepburn: I own one, Barbara. I shall wear it to your funeral.

That's not cheating. People say crazy shit during sex. One time, I called this girl Mom.

My fantasies have never been safe ones. Don't fuck with me, unless you understand that.

Logic pervades the world: the limits of the world are also its limits. So we cannot say in logic, 'The world has this in it, and this, but not that.' For that would appear to presuppose that we were excluding certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case, since it would require that logic should go beyond the limits of the world; for only in that way could it view those limits from the other side as well. We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either. (5.61)

The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway. (p.187)

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.[6]

Speak up for yourself, or you'll end up a rug.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

[hugging Sharon] Merry xmas....now fuck off.

I have a message for anyone coming to the Ozzfest this summer (Summer, 2000): If you're planning to jump up onstage during my set, please do not give me any bear hugs, because they fucking hurt. Listen to me, I'm dead serious. On the first night of last year's tour, this enormous guy jumped up onstage and gave me a huge bear hug. He crushed 3 of my ribs and I had to do the whole tour in absolute agony. I couldn't believe it, the first fucking show!

I don't say I've got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I'm perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don't want people fooling about with it. 'Leave it alone,' I say. 'Don't touch it. I like it the way it is.'

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours.'

A man must partly give up being a man With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off Anything special you're a-mind to name. Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love. Two that don't love can't live together without them. But two that do can't live together with them.' She moved the latch a little. 'Don't - don't go. Don't carry it to someone else this time. Tell me about it if it's something human. Let me into your grief. I'm not so much Unlike other folks as your standing there Apart would make me out. Give me my chance.

My liberty ends where yours begin.

We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low. Will you never let us go?

I work until beer o'clock.

Look, I'm a person, an individual with a character and part of my character is about what I believe in and part of my beliefs obviously is a religious conviction. I simply hesitate whenever I get drawn into this territory because I have found, over time, that it either leads to people misunderstanding the basis upon which you are taking decisions or it leads to people trying to colonise God or religion for one particular political position. I make no claims to that at all.

I'd rather put a fucking gun to my head than live in your state

'Sleep tight this evening. Snuggle if you can. No means no:and yes means come the fuck on.' September 1, 2006 The Gorge Amphitheatre

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me in school. And she said, 'Okay, I'm going to tell you what to do.' She said, 'This kid's bugging you. He puts his hands on you, you pick up the nearest rock, or whatever you can get your hands on, and you lay him out.' And I did! And I felt better. And it worked... So, for me, that was a great lesson because someone had invaded my space; invaded my being, you know, and was doing something against me that I didn't want to be done. So I took control of the situation and ran with it. And many years later, after being turned into a product by a very huge corporation that had their hands all over me and I couldn't escape it, I promised myself that I would continue to move forward and do my best not to compromise in any way whatsoever; not allow anyone to put their hands on me and affect me in that way. So that's the best advice that I could give, is just to keep moving forward, and don't give a shit what anybody thinks, you know. Just keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.

Panu to ja moge co najwyzej noge podac

Do not confuse 'duty' with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants 'just a few minutes of your time, please - this won't take long.' Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time - and squawk for more! So learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is 'expected' of you.)

Let my mother be.

Tell him to go to hell.