Threshold Quotes - Page 11

• Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Successful, President

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• Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Wise, Spiritual, Mother

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• The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Greatness, Yesterday

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• To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

  Harold Bloom

  Demon, Poet, Guarded

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• Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Journey, Giving, Soul

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

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• For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Home, Doors, Borders

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• The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold. Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that you have seen. It is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture, stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Stress, Cat, Light

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• We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, World, Cosmic

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• There are types of energy which lie outside the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately, these research efforts have not been given recognition. For the most part, they have been performed by individuals without any support, whose work lies at the threshold of present-day science, and who are years ahead of science which is already established.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Lying, Years, Support

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• Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, People, Twenties

  Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Should, Ambiguity

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Way, Pushing

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

  Bill Gates

  Drug, Surveillance, Information

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

  David Louis Edelman

  Agency, Sea, Sea Change

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• Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

  Derrick Jensen

  Running, Fighting, Giving

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.359, Seven Stories Press

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• Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Writing, Boredom

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• 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 become As 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

  Time, Home, Dark

  'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

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• The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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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 bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Reaper

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• In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.

  Peter Rollins

  Letting Go, Sublime, World

  Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Eliot

  Home, Hypocrisy, Abuse

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.65, Xist Publishing

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• Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

  Juvenal

  Eye, Ears, Youth

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• When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.

  Robert Greene

  People, Sick, Tunes

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Sibling, Home

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