Famous quotes containing the words consent and/or threshold:
“To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)