“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the… — Lisa Goldstein Copy Share Image
“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes,… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that… — Anne Hillman Copy Share Image
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
