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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about existence, regret, children, human imperfections

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Quote by Bill Gates about human imperfections

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

Quote by Richard Gere about human imperfections, things, contentment

There's no sanitation and no running water, but the spirit of the people, their enthusiasm, their joy-the thing I carried away with me was a sense of human contact.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about enthusiasm, joy, water, common sense, sense, human imperfections, spirit, things, people

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Quote by William Godwin about affection, parents, children, human imperfections, love

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Quote by William Godwin about human imperfections

Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about human imperfections, being, contentment

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about humor, dark, problems, thinking, human imperfections, life, people

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about public, human imperfections, things, people, contentment

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Quote by Jim Fowler about human imperfections

In the general course of human nature. A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about power, nature, human imperfections, man

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about liberty, heroism, enthusiasm, nature, human imperfections

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just...

Quote by Tom Hanks about myth, magic, human imperfections, man

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about prosperity, destruction, civilization, force, war, human imperfections, world

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Quote by Herodotus about influence, human imperfections, man

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, human imperfections

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about depression, boredom, human imperfections, contentment

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about intelligence, trap, thinking, death, mind, human imperfections, contentment

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, human imperfections, vice, absolute, pain, society, fear, death