#well

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#i #kiss #may #might #miserable

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#children #died #embargo #i #iraq

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#balance #doing #each #general #job

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#attitudes #backwards #between #broadest #broadest sense

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#articles #available #commerce #components #cost

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#clear #economists #going #health #interested

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#decision making #evolved #future #happy #interest

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#done #how #idea #makes #point

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented. ↗

— Karen Kain

#documented #importance #societies #thrive #well