Top 100 The Threshold Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde
#7. 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
#8. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
Franz Kafka
#22. We're on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside ...
Elie Wiesel
#23. We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.
Chris Cornell
#24. The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul ...
Leonard Cohen
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
Howard Carter
#29. The wood creaks as I step over the threshold, a haunting sort of hello.
Paige McKenzie
#30. It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
George Eliot
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#35. I stand more
soberly on the threshold
at the moment important
for coming back to you
freely
Anne Parian
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
Samuel Beckett
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.
Judith Jamison
#52. Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
Stephen Levine
#53. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
Friedrich Holderlin
#54. I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
John Caudwell
#55. As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening
even, perhaps, a falling in love.
John C. Bean
#56. By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
Leonard Mlodinow
#57. Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there.
Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.
Shan Sa
#58. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel with his finger on his lips.
The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
Victor Hugo
#59. Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.
Marcel Proust
#60. For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
William Shakespeare
#61. Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Georg Ebers
#62. I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
Mahmoud Darwish
#63. At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#64. But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
Dominique De Menil
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!
Christine Caine
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. The professional will not tolerate disorder ... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
Steven Pressfield
#73. Once you cross the threshold of 30 plus years of marriage you soon realize that what use to be two is now merging into one.
Jonah Books
#74. We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#75. Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#76. It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
Mark Nepo
#77. In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
Karl Kraus
#78. We have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.
Emily Bronte
#79. Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.
Victor Hugo
#80. 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
#81. Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.
Amit Ray
#82. Teach me the wilderness simplicity.
Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,
as the threshold of all that really matters.
Calvin Miller
#84. Love of love and love of life and giving without measure, gives in return a wondrous yearn of a promise yet unseen. Line hand in hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.
The Moody Blues
#85. You have every cause for anxiety. we are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society. there are new times just around the corner
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#86. The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
Orhan Pamuk
#87. In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.
Charles Holland Duell
#88. But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.
Tertullian
#89. I need a girl night. And you ... " She divided a look between them. "You two need a cooling-off period." She shoved a brownie in Cam's hand, then pushed him over the threshold and shut the door in his face. "There. I thought he'd never leave.
Jill Shalvis
#90. I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts - Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands.
Mary Howitt
#91. The single set of footprints, Joe and Lynn had been seeing in their dreams, steadily reverted to the original set of two. Now, they found themselves standing, with wonderment and anticipation, on the threshold of a new beginning.
Robert Marcin
#92. His eyelids closed - buckled, really - the bones in his face so fragile they shattered under the weight of his very lids as he dropped to the threshold of existence. His last breath had already left him. And as he fell, life did the same.
Clive Barker
#93. Shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in
Rudyard Kipling
#94. The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house.
R.C. Sproul
#95. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
Criss Jami
#96. For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. "Is there something between the two of you?" I pause at the threshold, waiting.
"No! I hate the wretch." His face, crisscrossed with lacework shadows, grows somber. "I hate her with the same changeless passion with which I love you."
A.G. Howard
#98. It was there, deep inside everyone, hope, repentance, regret. The feeling had possessed both Elizabeth and I even on the threshold of hell, on the edge of end.
Suren Hakobyan
#99. The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
Robert Southey
#100. Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida
