Yearn Quotes

(talking about her Oscar nomination (her father Burt Lane, who managed her early career, passed away in February 2002) The only phone call I really yearn to make is one I can`t, which is to say, "Guess what, Dad?"

It`s so wrong to yearn so much, that you miss the joy of what you`re living. That`s definitely something I`ve learned and am willing to share.

I don`t yearn to be a child again.

Well I have been in relationships all my life and for the first time ever about a year and a half ago ...I became single....It`s been brilliant because I really need to figure out who I am, by myself, not in conjunction with anyone else. I have spent most of my life thinking about what the woman in my life needs, and don`t get me wrong I love doing that. That`s why I have done it so much....But for the first time in my life I have been waking up in the morning and thinking "What the f*** does Dash want to do today"....And not worrying about anyone else but me... I think everyone knows how easy it is to desert huge parts of yourself while in relationships... and we all yearn for the balance of taking care of one`s self and their partner.... So I strive to achieve that one day and am taking steps toward it....

People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can`t strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.

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 conflict with the Palestinians.

(If you yearn for the days of) Back in Black, ... The Best Worst of AC/DC.

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

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 creature and would always yearn for more power.

It`s not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don`t be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn`t last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

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

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

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 by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men`s lives.

My submission to you is we`re fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we`d be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.

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.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it