Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes… — Gary Zukav
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… — Jane Goodall
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big… — David Christian
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Poetry is more a threshold than a path. — Seamus Heaney
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… — Michael Baumgartner
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies. — Charles Duhigg
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity. — Trinny Woodall
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
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine… — James Gleick
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
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. — Edmund Waller
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… — Larry Harvey
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been… — Walter Kohn
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. — James Larkin
I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical… — Johannes Rau
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. — Howard Carter
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
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are… — Abraham Verghese

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