My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. Sonia Sotomayor Hope #Gender #Good #Judging
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success. Harvey V. Fineberg Success #Best #Evolution #Survival
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham Writing #Writing
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. Honoré de Balzac #Loneliness #Society #Solitude
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell Arts #Desire #Express #Himself
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke Love #Greed #Power #Society
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell. Jerry Weintraub Life #Fail #Plan #Win
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that. Colm Meaney Humor #Character #Edge #Situations
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. Kenny Rogers Friendship #Beyond #Chemistry #Point
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume Hope #Fear #Joy #Poverty
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. Douglas Booth Success #Age #Image #Press
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. A.A. Milne #3394 Likes
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth #Machines #People
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. Milan Kundera Love #Love
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. Bill Watterson Humor #Calvin And Hobbes #Humor
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. Charles Dickens Love #Kissing #Love #Romance
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin Humor #Humor
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle Arts #Aim #Appearance #Inward
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino Inspiration #Darkness #Inspirational
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. Laurel Clark Life #Earth #Science #Space
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally. Wallace Shawn Humor #Character #Funny #Life
The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans. Mohammed Morsi Friendship #Egyptians