quotes about Pushing Boundaries

“The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.”

Source : Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

“While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.”

“Everything was invented when somebody was alone.”

“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.”

“The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).”

“I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”

Source : "You Ask The Questions". The Independent, September 12, 2002.

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

“There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.”