Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience. — Saadi
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
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it… — Pierre de Coubertin
Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice, .. I ran as a… — Dianne Feinstein
I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold… — Rick Pitino
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
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness -… — Sara Nelson
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -… — George Eliot
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… — Frederick Lenz
The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of… — Frederick Lenz
If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to,… — Declan Donnellan
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the… — Tom Vanderbilt
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… — Khalil Gibran
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite… — Al Gore
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… — Jacques Derrida
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… — Alfred Hitchcock
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far… — Douglas Hofstadter
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is… — Alan Kay
Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000… — Jeffrey Kluger
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold… — Roh Moo-hyun

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