Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you… — J R Ward
...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go… — Samuel Beckett
And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment… — Joseph Conrad
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that… — Kate Morton
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen… — Diana Gabaldon
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally… — Darren Shan
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here… — William Shakespeare
...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations.… — Emma Donoghue
We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something… — Kim Harrison
Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights. — Lawrence M. Krauss
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in… — Orhan Pamuk
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown,… — Juliet Marillier
I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening… — Catherine Sanderson
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the yearâ€™s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of… — Margaret Atwood
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving… — Galt Niederhoffer
Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. â€œI could ask… — Cassandra Clare
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the… — Bertrand Russell

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