...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
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?… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
“I respect every Type of Sports, but the best Training stays the Fight against one's own Mind – lifting Weights until Power-… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult,… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
“Prague is a threshold.” “A threshold?” “Yes. Between the life of good and … the other.” Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it,… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always,… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Harry Reid employed the so-called nuclear option, broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Prague does not have its name for no reason - in truth, Prague is a threshold between the life on Earth and… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
