#wi

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ↗

— Erica Jong

#already #answer #ask #know #wish

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#discomfort #enjoy #often #opinion #thought

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#championships #doing #i #i can #live

My favorite wines are Zinfandels. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#wines

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

My witness is the empty sky. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sky #witness

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#before #especially #features #geographic #give

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#color #content #day #i #judged