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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
Designing new low-yield nuclear weapons for limited strikes dangerously lowers the threshold for their use.
At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!
We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
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
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!
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.
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.
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
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!
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?
I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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.
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I stub my toe and think probably not.
The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
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.
Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
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.
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
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.
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.
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.
Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration.
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.
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
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.
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.
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.
My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
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.
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.
Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
