Threshold Quotes - Page 8

• If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

  Declan Donnellan

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Interesting, Attention, Psychological

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• Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Shoes, Issues, People

  "New Questions on Miers' Roe Views / She Reportedly Says She Doesn't Recall Ever Discussing Case" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2005.

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Ordinary World, Games, Generations

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• The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Phones, Two

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• Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

  Jerry Kramer

  Leadership, Sports, Hurt

  Jerry Kramer (2008). “Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer”, p.112, Anchor

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• Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grief, Mean, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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• The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

  Ezra Pound

  Death, Lying, Heart

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Brain, Important

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

  Bobby Sands

  Hunger Strike, Soul, World

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

  M. John Harrison

  Perspective, Bullshit, Glimpse

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• It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

  Mark Nepo

  Risk, Suffering, Amazed

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.161, Conari Press

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• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sex, Passion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

  Saadi

  Greatness, Quality, Obedience

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.33, Innovations and Information

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• Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

  Maria Tatar

  Magic, Forbidden, Happens

  Maria Tatar (2004). “Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives”, p.1, Princeton University Press

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• Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Silence, Finals

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• I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Horse, Desire, Ends

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.

  John Gofman

  Epidemiology, Track, Analysis

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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

  James Wan

  Pain, Real, Blood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, California

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books

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• At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Kings, Men

  Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.54, Xist Publishing

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• Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Heart, Two

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• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  Barack Obama

  Children, Forever, Magic

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• Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.

  Alison Croggon

  Queens, War, Heart

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