Bounds Quotes

For those of us in the political business, generally, it’s been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don’t attack someone‘s family.

Some tell me I’ll break my ankle on my high heels – but I live in them. I’m known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be so far outside the bounds of tradition that he must be treated differently from his predecessors.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it’s leaps and bounds more positive.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

Donald Trump has come under fire for recommending U.S. citizens accused of terrorism be prosecuted before military tribunals. But despite the criticism, Trump’s concerns are not only merited – they are, in fact, within the bounds of the law.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Six books after the surprises of ‘Full Dark House,’ the Bryant and May novels continue to stay within the bounds of formula by straining against them in new ways.

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford‘s constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.

Headline writers love the phrase ‘Power Grab,’ but you can’t really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved… I’m happy and relieved by this.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

I know I’ve had an attitude that can explode, but I’m trying my best to not step out of bounds.

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

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there’s no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

I’ve made some leaps and bounds as an underground artist.

I am leaps and bounds better than Henry Cejudo. I greatly believe that. But unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to prove it.

Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they’ve put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

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

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays… a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

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.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

I didn’t know love until I had my daughter. I didn’t know its bounds.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

I just know when I’m on the sideline, I can’t expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there’s a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

We are traumatized by growing up in a world that doesn’t really accept us. Obviously, we’ve made great leaps and bounds, but I think there’s a tendency to force a narrative onto queer people that once you come out… you have to be really happy and really successful and proud all the time.

Nature seems at each man‘s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

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.