#yearn

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #yearn




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 can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.


Anne Lamott


#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.


Daniel Libeskind


#bronx #brought #easily #fed #fed up

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.


Gary Locke


#american #brands #china #class #contrast

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.


Iris Murdoch


#another #body #human #human body #indifference

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.


Michael Musto


#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn.


Susie Clevenger


#beauty #discovery #love #lust #passion

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.


Tony Snow


#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.


Adlai E. Stevenson


#convention #four #i #nations #peace

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


#been #future #life is a #series #sum

Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it?


James Lusarde


#mystery #wonder #yearning #beauty