Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon… — Bertrand Russell
I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new. — Jada Pinkett Smith
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others -… — Frances Wright
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the… — Craig Clevenger
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. — Kathy Acker
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. — Victor Hugo
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases… — Marcel Proust
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she… — Virginia Woolf
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend… — Arundhati Roy
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'... — Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in… — Khalil Gibran
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all… — Clive Barker
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
...we are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility. — John O'Donohue
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be… — Pope John Paul II
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold… — John O'Donohue

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