Yearnings Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people. — Richard Armitage
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. — Jimmy Carter
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence… — Maya Angelou
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. — William Inge
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a… — Alistair Cooke
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in… — Clarence Darrow
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. — Boyd K. Packer
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no… — Eric Hoffer
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to… — Crescenzio Sepe
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether… — Margaret H. Marshall
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections… — Russell M. Nelson
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean… — Lucy Stone
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch… — Marilyn French
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not… — Julian Fellowes
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin

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