#nothin

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#everything #expect #expected #nothing #obedience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#worrying-over-nothing #experience

From the moment we are born, we begin to die. ↗

— Janne Teller

#janne-teller #nothing #sadness #depression

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#common sense #more #nothing #sense #than

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#cried #empty #nothing #outline #past

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

Free zero-point energy doesn't exist in an illusion of freedom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nothing-for-free #zero-point-energy #freedom

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#buds #depends #great #just #like

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ↗