Longing Quotes
Word Lists
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Deep in my heart I`m concealing things that I`m longing to say. Scared to confess what I`m feeling - frightened you`ll slip away.
Madonna
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde
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You can`t do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I`m longing to do is ... it`s not that I think I`m funny ... but I long to do a situation comedy.
Lance Henriksen
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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...
Tony Snow
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I`ve met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
Wayne Coyne
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant
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We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the wor...
Ann Kuehling
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The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished h...
Andrew Metrick
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished h...
Maria Shriver
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The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
Allayne Barrilleaux
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Ben Kingsley
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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
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People of this world are deluded. They`re always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Alaida Lares
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Alvina Tan
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Albert Feng
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It is a political thriller. It`s very action packed and it`s very exciting, but at the same time it`s a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They`re not separate, they`re completely dependent on one another.
Rachel Weisz
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Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Greta Garbo
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In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of th...
Alexander Rodchenko
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I`m very pleased that his joining my office will permit me to spend more direct time with the vice presidents and to do something I`ve been longing to do for a year or so - to get more direct contact with the students,
John Peters
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I`m doing lots of interviews and stuff. I`m longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
Stevie Nicks
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern
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Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I`ll take the inspiration with the gloom because usually where there`s a tear, there`s a tune.
Charlie Sexton
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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
Arundhati Roy
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Alan Adler
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
Alan Rodger
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And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can`t be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.
Sela Ward
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