Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with… — Miyamoto Musashi
Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on… — Abraham Lincoln
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a… — Michael Cunningham
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily… — Cassandra Clare
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I… — Alison Croggon
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever,… — Barack Obama
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we… — Siri Hustvedt
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.… — Ayn Rand
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to… — Christopher McDougall
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.… — Thomas Merton
My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so donâ€™t push me, Olympain. I donâ€™t want so much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the… — Mahatma Gandhi
He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden.… — Lynn Kurland
it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last."… — Nora Roberts
Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more… — Shan Sa
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be… — Orson Scott Card
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak — Franz Kafka
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. — Kate Morton
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities — Gilles Deleuze

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