“ Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
- 133
“ Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
- 2K
“ People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold. ”
- Richard Thalheimer- Copy
- 3.3K
“ At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ”
- Moo hyum Roh- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man - the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before. ”
- Dr. Jerome Brunner- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 812
“ Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
- 1.1K
“ For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. ”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man — the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before. ”
- Jerome Seymour Bruner- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences. ”
- Alice Miller- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
- 793
“ No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ”
- Kahil Gibron- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. ”
- J. A. Primo De Rivera- Copy
- 2K
“ The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
- 546
“ Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 3K
“ It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well-supported view that subliminal perception does occur that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition. ”
- Maureen Phillips- Copy
- 350
“ 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. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.4K
“ How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.4K
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