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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Impossible

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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

Life, Future, Series

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin

God, Suffering, Forgetting

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

Time, Place, Speak

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

Beauty, Music, Great

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
Stephen Jay Gould

Process, Results, Necessary

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

Peace, Political, After

I don't yearn to be a child again.
Loretta Young

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
Dennis Prager

War, Human, Lost

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning

Pain, Passion, Hearts

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
Julie Burchill

Find, After, Often

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather

Democracy, Capitalism, Despite

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay

Life, Place, Church

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.
Allan Bloom

Education, Learning, Find

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.
Ariel Sharon

Peace, Possible, Taking

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.
Wislawa Szymborska

Daily, Themselves, Read

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.
Matthew Morrison

Great, Show, Romance

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

Music, Great, Movies

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.
David O. McKay

Work, Peace, Men

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

Women, Men, Single

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.
Joe Scarborough

School, Past, Old

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.
Roy Moore

Power, System, Separation

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.
Jon Cryer

Friend, Dark, Guy

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
Winthrop Rockefeller

Justice, May, American

People will still love and hurt and yearn.
Janet McTeer

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.
Johnny Isakson

War, Democracy, Country

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