Knuffel Nodig Quotes & Sayings

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far - and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high. — Megan McArdle

I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. — Jeanette Winterson

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. — Iris Murdoch

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then. — John Green

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.
(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866) — Charles Darwin

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow? — Andrei Platonov

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever ... — Gayle Forman

The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way. — Francois Cavanna