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I have a very low boredom threshold.
— Garth Kravits
The professional will not tolerate disorder ... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
— Steven Pressfield
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.
— Helen McCloy
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.
— Dean Koontz
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
— Robert Southey
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
— Charles Duhigg
There is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
— Franz Kafka
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.
— Henry Rollins
Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
— William J. Clinton
For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
— William Shakespeare
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
— Oscar Wilde
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
This was the threshold to the place of the dead.
— Terry Goodkind
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
— Bobby Sands
Isn't it odd, how strangers come over the threshold and you never know what they might become...
— Sarah Perry
If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.
— Mariel Hemingway
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
— Pierre De Coubertin
And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
— Samuel Beckett
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
— Gina McCarthy
Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.
— Maria Tatar
To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
— Henry Miller
I stand more
soberly on the threshold
at the moment important
for coming back to you
freely — Anne Parian
soberly on the threshold
at the moment important
for coming back to you
freely — Anne Parian
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
— Kate Morton
Stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold.
— Charlotte Bronte
He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.
— John Steinbeck
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
— Gore Vidal
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
— Havelock Ellis
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
— Nick Harkaway
There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.
— Wendy Wright
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
The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.
— Gaston Bachelard
If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold."
And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged," said Bussy. — Alexandre Dumas
And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged," said Bussy. — Alexandre Dumas
The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die
— Georgette Heyer
I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
— Van Morrison
But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?
— Jennifer Niven
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
— Mahmoud Darwish
Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.
— Amit Ray
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
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
— Phil Plait
This hand shake is a threshold moment. With this strangely beautiful man in my life, I have a feeling it will never be the same again.
— L. H. Cosway
But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?
— Mark Frost
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.
— Fernando Pessoa
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
— Nelson Shanks
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
— Kahlil Gibran
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
— Anna Howard Shaw
I have a really low boredom threshold.
— Nick Hornby
Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
— Seamus Heaney
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
— Nick Hanauer
We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.
— Christiana Figueres
Your words crossed a threshold,
And entered the past,
Yet they have created,
A word that will last. — Somya Kedia
And entered the past,
Yet they have created,
A word that will last. — Somya Kedia
I have a very low eerie threshold.
— Jandy Nelson
People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
— Hillary Clinton
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
— Cassandra Clare
Death of the righteous ... is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
— Billy Graham
We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.
— Chris Cornell
Once you cross the threshold of 30 plus years of marriage you soon realize that what use to be two is now merging into one.
— Jonah Books
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
— Alan Hirsch
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
— Emily Bronte
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.
— Trinny Woodall
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.
— Michael Baumgartner
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.
— Pearl Zhu
I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
— John Caudwell
We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.
— S. Kelley Harrell
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.
— Melissa McCarthy
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
— Andrew Stanton
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
— Edmund Waller
Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.
— Jerry Kramer
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
— Darren Shan
As his step crossed the threshold, he left behind his weaknesses and doubts, finally setting aside the boy to become the man he had to be.
— Bey Deckard
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.
— Kathy Acker