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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

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

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Quote by Billy Joel about need, human imperfections, love, people

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Quote by Billy Joel about people, feelings, humanity, contentment, music, need, human imperfections, things

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about thinking, human imperfections, man

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about state, human imperfections, life

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, public, human imperfections

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment