"Borderline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the days. But they are sent from Him to His Image, and our weaving is made out of their materials as we adapt them to our song. All outer powers and forces are brought us by the angels, and among the dearest to God's heart are his flame-winged Possibilities that hover on the borderline between today and tomorrow, Time and Eternity. They alone may not enter time unless we beckon them. The starry heaven is the heaven of the body; the crystal sphere, of the intellect; and the empyrean, of the pure ...
— The Forgotten Threshold • Arthur Middleton
... Samuel C. "The Practicability of the Binet Scale and the Question of the Borderline Case"; in Training ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman
... small observance would be necessary to detect the borderline of Szech'wan and Yuen-nan. The latter is supposed to be one of the most ill-nurtured and desolate provinces of the Empire, mountainous, void of cultivation when compared with Szech'wan, one mass of high hills conditioned now as Nature made them; and the people, too, ashamed of their ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... what had happened to him since that shock of ruthless attack. From early childhood, when he had been thrown on his own to scratch a living—a borderline existence of a living—on the Dumps of Tyr, he had had to use his wits to keep life in a scrawny and undersized body. However, since he had been eating regularly from Survey rations, he was not quite ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... can we approve of it when it expresses itself in docility, submissiveness and obedience. We object because both are burdens and dangers to the intelligence of the community. As a matter of fact, there is sufficient evidence to lead us to believe that the so-called "borderline cases" are a greater menace than the out-and-out "defective delinquents" who can be supervised, controlled and prevented from procreating their kind. The advent of the Binet-Simon and similar psychological tests indicates ...
— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger
... Hopf?" she repeated, then smiling to herself as people will when they are leaving the borderline of anesthesia, she repeated ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve |
