Thresholds Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
— John Ruskin
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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
— Lester R. Brown
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that…
— Amy Wright
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
— Polly Toynbee
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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
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...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
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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
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...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
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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
Who Wrote These Thresholds Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Thresholds Quotes as follows: