Top 100 Quotes About Threshold
#1. There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.
Gloria Feldt
#2. We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Larry Harvey
#3. Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.
Kamal Ravikant
#4. Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.
Maria Tatar
#5. I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
Bobby Sands
#6. This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
Alan Hirsch
#7. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
Orson Scott Card
#8. I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
Van Morrison
#9. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
Malcolm Gladwell
#10. Mama operated under the assumption that I was eight years old and incapable of feeding myself. It was physically impossible for her to cross my threshold without some form of nourishment. She once offered me cheese and crackers from her while we were standing in my kitchen.
Molly Harper
#11. Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.
David Niven
#12. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran
#14. You leave that life out there," he said, motioning to the street. "You cross the threshold of your home and that's it. Don't bring any of that into your home. Ever.
Frank Lucas
#15. Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde
#16. She experienced a moment of genuine happiness that rocked her and made her quake at the intensity of the feeling. She had a sense of being on the threshold of an entirely new purpose with a vastly different perspective. She
S.K. Epperson
#17. Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.
Sherry Turkle
#18. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
#20. I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
Walter Russell
#21. As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure.
Gretchen Rubin
#22. The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die
Georgette Heyer
#23. Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.
Frederick Lenz
#24. A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.
Allen Lacy
#25. Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
William J. Clinton
#26. I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
Jackie Collins
#27. We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin
#28. Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
Dean Koontz
#29. I started to my feet as suddenly as if he had struck me. If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman - and I loved his wife so dearly!
Wilkie Collins
#30. I told him, "The writing instinct has always lain dormant in me. Now it is in the process of metamorphosis. The era of transition has passed. I am on the threshold of expression."
He said, "Balls.
John Fante
#31. There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one ... single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.
Diana Gabaldon
#32. This is embarrassing," Mr. Haffey informed me. I winked at him. "What, Mrs. Haffey never carried you over the threshold on your wedding night?
Ilona Andrews
#33. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
Joseph Campbell
#34. Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
Warren G. Bennis
#35. You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'
Anthony Fauci
#36. We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
Jerome Bruner
#37. And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed into a butterfly that she could fly.
Chirag Tulsiani
#39. Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
Franz Kafka
#40. We're on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside ...
Elie Wiesel
#41. We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.
Chris Cornell
#42. The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul ...
Leonard Cohen
#43. On the threshold she paused ... for perchance the idea of entering, all alone, and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#44. We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
John O'Donohue
#46. I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
Johannes Rau
#47. It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
Howard Carter
#48. The wood creaks as I step over the threshold, a haunting sort of hello.
Paige McKenzie
#49. In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
Charles Duhigg
#50. It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
George Eliot
#51. Around two years of age, your child starts to develop a fascination with saying the word "no." Early childhood experts call this the threshold between the sensorimotor stage and the preoperational stage of cognitive development. The rest of us call it "the terrible twos.
Anonymous
#52. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Susan Sontag
#53. There's just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it's actually easier when there's no chance of anything happening. But there's this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.
Becky Albertalli
#54. I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg ... I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.
Henry McNeal Turner
#56. I stand more
soberly on the threshold
at the moment important
for coming back to you
freely
Anne Parian
#57. Suicide is not the way out of bondage of pain. It is the threshold of eternal pain. Satan hisses lies wanting you to believe suicide is better than to serve the Lord.
Sue Raymond
#58. There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.
Dean Koontz
#59. We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.
Jane Goodall
#60. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway
#61. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
#62. The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
Henry Van Dyke
#63. To Borody and a small band of like-minded brethren who believe in the power of poop, we are standing at the threshold of a new era in medicine. Borody sees the benefits of fecal therapy as "equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics." But first, there is much skepticism to overcome.
Steven D. Levitt
#64. My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Jill Tweedie
#65. Prague is a threshold."
"A threshold?"
"Yes. Between the life of good and ... the other."
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I'm not going to have to fight demons, am I?
Magnus Flyte
#66. We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#68. Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
Bill Gates
#69. Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.
Natasha Trethewey
#70. Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.
Ad De Bont
#71. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.
Kim Harrison
#72. By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.
John Gofman
#73. A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
William James
#74. I will gain your trust. I will earn it. I know you can't give it now but I will have it. I will have everything. You won't hold anything back from me. Ever. Do you understand?
Master of Passion
Club Threshold
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Nikki Faye
#75. If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.
Mariel Hemingway
#76. If an institution has become so large that there
is no alternative except for the taxpayers to
provide support, should we allow so many
institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?
Sheila Bair
#77. And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
Samuel Beckett
#78. I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.
Nick Flynn
#79. I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
Nalo Hopkinson
#81. In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
Carl Jung
#82. Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Pierre De Coubertin
#84. Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.
Judith Jamison
#85. Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
Anna Howard Shaw
#86. Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.
Victor Hugo
#87. Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.
James Oliver Curwood
#88. The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
Michael Baumgartner
#89. And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
Pope John Paul II
#90. Luck is everything ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
#91. Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers.
Gregory Benford
#92. The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Barbara W. Tuchman
#93. At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!
Christine Caine
#94. In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#96. Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like - impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.
Barbara Pym
#97. To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.
Harold Bloom
#98. The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities
Gilles Deleuze
#99. When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.
Vladimir Nabokov
#100. Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.
Bruce C. Hafen
