Quotes About Threshold

Total grandeur of a total edifice,Chosen by an inquisitor of structuresFor himself. He stops upon this thresholdAs if the design of all his words takes formAnd frame from thinking and is realized.

It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain. Once a certain threshold of pain is passed, no amount of pleasure can compensate for it.

The irony of it all is that we in the developed world are the prime polluters, the most destructive of people on the planet, yet although we have the money and the means to prevent the Earth crossing the deadly threshold that will make global change irreversible, we are hampered by fear.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done.

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.

but I do take an enormous interest in the personal aspects of what archaeology reveals. I like to find a little dog buried under the threshold, inscribed on which are the words: 'Don't stop to think, Bite him!' Such a good motto for a guard-dog; you can see it being written on the clay, and someone laughing. The contract tablets are interesting,

Rather unwillingly, Colonel Luscombe stepped across the threshold and had the door shut firmly behind him.

Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—

has a control system so perilously close to intelligence that a government agent must be on hand at all times, ready to destroy the machine if it slips over the threshold into consciousness.

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?" I asked, nudging him. "A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first," he said. "If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shdow, another kind of empitness. Heaven is more than this.

So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?" I asked, nudging him. "A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first," he said. "If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shadow, another kind of emptiness. Heaven is more than this

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.

Live always at the 'edge of mystery'— the boundary of the unknown.

The mountain, as Evola describes it in these essays, is portrayed as the guardian of the initiatory threshold over which anyone who wants to be initiated must cross at least once in a lifetime; otherwise it's better never to have been born, because the meaning of life is found only through realizing oneself. But we realize ourselves only by putting ourselves to the test.

She nodded. Nick opened the door, but she paused on the threshold. Noah? What's your last name? Clayborne, he answered. Noah Clayborne.

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, unimaginable.

Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen Aphorism N. 5

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.