Longs Quotes - page 3

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that. (James Hillman)
Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs, For Thou art all for which my spirit longs-- To be within the shadow of Thy hand And all Thy mystery to understand. The while Thy glory is upon my tongue, My inmost heart with love of thee is wrung, So though Thy mighty marvels I proclaim, 'Tis songs of love wherewith I greet Thy name. View quote
Yehuda he-Hasid
My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. View quote
Dodie Smith
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. View quote
Vera Nazarian
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
My spirit longs for Thee, Within my troubled breast, Though I unworthy be Of so divine a Guest. View quote
John Byrom
Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries. View quote
Catullus
He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ. View quote
John Flavel
She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back. (Celeste Ng)
Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. View quote
Billy Bob Thornton
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. View quote
Joseph Addison
Eros? What other name may we give that impetus which becomes enchanted as soon as it casts its glance on matter and then longs to impress its features upon it? View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The standard model longs for the Higgs particle in order to be a sound theory. View quote
Jos Engelen
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? View quote
Tom Baker
I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
I am looking into an unborn and shapeless world that longs to be called to life and order, I am looking into a throng of phantoms of human forms which beckon me to conjure them and set them free: some of them tragic, some of them ridiculous, and some that are both at once - and to these I am very devoted. But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the blond and blue-eyed, the bright-spirited living ones, the happy, amiable, and commonplace. View quote
Thomas Mann
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. (Jodie Foster)
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I understand why other people would want to stay in B&Bs. They're pretty. They're personal. They're "quaint,” a polite way of saying "no TV.” They are "romantic,” i. e., every object large enough for a flower to be printed on it is going to have a flower printed on it. They're "cozy,” meaning that a guest has to keep her belongings on the floor because every conceivable flat surface is covered in knickknacks, except for the one knickknack she longs for, a remote control. View quote
Sarah Vowell
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world. View quote
Josiah Royce
The Peace you long for also longs for you. View quote
Guy Finley