“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame.… — Delores Phillips Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
“no matter how good things get in this world, it’s all Egypt! There will never be enough gold chains, fine linen, praise,… — Voddie Baucham Jr Copy Share Image
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
“There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho'… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
“We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it. To call it yearning would be like… — R.A. Nelson Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
