#bound

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries. ↗

— Michael Giles

#being #boundaries #coming #created #decided

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#appear #bound #calls #case #deprive

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#bounds #individuality #life #morality #wells

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#anything #books #boundaries #free #i

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #myself #remind #set

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. ↗

— Voltaire

#country #heart #our #spot #which

It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't ever happen again but it's best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#again #best #boundaries #close #easiest

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#bound #lesbian #lot #offered #thrillers