Threshold Quotes

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous, seeing.

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.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

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

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

I have a really low boredom threshold.

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.

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

We are past opposition. I mean, we've crossed that threshold before [Donald] Trump was inaugurated.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

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

Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.

I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that lies complete chaos”.

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.

This was the threshold to the place of the dead.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.