Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

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… — Robert Southey
Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all. — Jerry Kramer
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there… — Martin Buber
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait
Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and… — James Wan
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… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within. — William Shakespeare
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be… — Mark Twain
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen
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… — Warren G. Bennis
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. — Gina McCarthy
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 irrespective of any… — Martin Rees
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… — Jerome Bruner
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
Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the… — Johnny Knoxville
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… — Criss Jami
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"… — John Gofman
The threshold is the place of expectation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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