Threshold Quotes - Page 12

• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Thinking, Office, Meditation

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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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• 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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• Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.

  Tony Robbins

  Issues, People, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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

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• Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

  Harriet Lerner

  Way, May, Want

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate”, p.2, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Epidemics, Levels

  "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.

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• Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.

  Glenda Green

  Heart, Love Is, Expectations

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• The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.

  Richard Alley

  Climate, Triggers, Surprising

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Rights

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• If an institution has become so large that there
  is no alternative except for the taxpayers to
  provide support, should we allow so many
  institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

  Sheila Bair

  Support, Alternatives, Kind

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• In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.

  Charles Holland Duell

  Wish, Lines, Might

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• Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Funny Marriage, Choices, Heaven

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• I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Urban Legends, World, Internet

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• Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fate, Destiny, Men

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• With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, Feet, Giving

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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