Longs Quotes

162 Longs quotes by 140 unique authors

Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident… — Robert Farrar Capon
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of… — Jostein Gaarder
We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in… — John Eldredge
How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the… — Mark Strand
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands… — Phyllis McGinley
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to… — Ann Voskamp
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself… — John Stott
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night… — Vladimir Nabokov
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be… — Edmond Rostand
I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all thatâ€™s best in all of creation, a… — Fred Rogers
The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the… — Erin Morgenstern
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. — Graham Greene
You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce… — Laura Esquivel
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you.… — A A Milne
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul.… — Ellen G. White
A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every… — Unknown Author
She hates everything that is not what she longs for. — George Eliot

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