Yearn Quotes

193 Yearn quotes by 165 unique authors

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and… — Henry Suso
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? — Sydney J. Harris
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of… — Shirley Hufstedler
I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. — Amy Poehler
Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. — Frank Gehry
I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a… — Stephen Jay Gould
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you… — Anne Lamott
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out… — David O. McKay
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen… — Roy Moore
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives… — Dennis Prager
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like… — Daniel Radcliffe
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. — Dan Rather
Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the… — Ariel Sharon
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His… — Henry B. Eyring
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for… — Dean Koontz
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the… — Ezra Taft Benson

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