Quotes About Threshold

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

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 dawn.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

All I know is a door into the dark

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

To keep your human door sturdy, be careful not to cut within 3" of the bottom.

Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;

Perhaps the greatest illusion was the idea that we cared more for what was going on than they did, that we would pay a higher price, that they would feel the threshold of pain before we did. It was of course an obvious lie; but the principals had, in their desire no to come to real decisions, painted themselves into a corner where lie followed lie.

Perhaps the greatest illusion was the idea that we cared more for what was going on than they did, that we would pay a higher price, that they would feel the threshold of pain before we did. It was of course an obvious lie; but the principals had, in their desire not to come to real decisions, painted themselves into a corner where lie followed lie.

A second way in which desirability discrepancies create mating conflict centers not on men's misperceptions but rather on the hard, cruel fact mentioned earlier—men view many women as "above threshold" in attractiveness, but women tend to be attracted primarily to men in the top twentieth percentile.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Every wall is a door.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.