Bounds Quotes

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

The dark and the light are braided and bound.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill.

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

You are bound to pick up influences.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.

I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.