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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Quote by Winston Churchill about prosperity, human imperfections

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Quote by Danny DeVito about human imperfections, contentment

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Quote by Princess Diana about fight, children, public, human imperfections

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Quote by Winston Churchill about conflict, human imperfections

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Quote by Winston Churchill about human imperfections, life

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Quote by Charles Dickens about secret, human imperfections

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Quote by Charles Dickens about human imperfections, things, world

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Quote by Charles Dickens about heart, human imperfections

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about survival, tools, fight, violence, human imperfections

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death, state, human imperfections, being

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about fidelity, nothing, truth, mind, human imperfections

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Quote by Glenn Close about adventure, soul, heart, human imperfections

I can make the switch to human any time I want to. People look at me and I know what they're thinking: Tough, demanding, bitch.

Quote by Glenn Close about thinking, human imperfections, time, people

I don't think my characters are all awful and horrible. There are reasons for their behaviour. I have to find what makes them human

Quote by Glenn Close about human imperfections

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

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