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Quotes About Threshold

Pausing an instant on the threshold before she vanished from their sight, she looked backward, and fixing on Gerald the strange glance he remembered well, she said in her penetrating voice, Is not the last scene better than the first?
~ Louisa May Alcott
shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in
~ Rudyard Kipling
For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight. These shall cleanse and purify Webbed and inward-turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Every man a King indeed!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Tüm resmi görebilenler, çerçevenin d???na ad?m atanlard?r.
~ Salman Rushdie
They say women have a much higher pain threshold. They say it's because we are the ones who have to go through childbirth. I say it's because women have a much higher everything than most men.
~ Salman Rushdie
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
~ Ray Dalio
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.
~ Alison Bechdel
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
~ Joe E. Lewis
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
~ Joseph Campbell
Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.
~ Terry Pratchett
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;Stronger by weakness, wiser, men becomeAs they draw near to their eternal home.Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,That stand upon the threshold of the new.
~ Edmund Waller
I am the door.
~ Anonymous
When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.
~ Anthony de Mello
Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.
~ Anthony Doerr
Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.
~ Anthony Doerr
It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.
~ Anthony Doerr
The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
~ Nancy Cartwright
To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
~ Frank Herbert
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
~ Frank Herbert
They thought of frustration as a threshold, a factor to heighten awareness. It
~ Frank Herbert
He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
~ Frank Herbert
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
~ Franz Kafka