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I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around. — Kathleen Hanna

I play games with her fabulous eyes and she longs to be in a monastery — Jack Kerouac

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them. — Cormac McCarthy

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. — Joseph Addison

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel

What's wrong with writing about love? Everybody longs for love. — Kate Forsyth

only thing I'd said was that a supreme intelligence exists in the universe, and that it longs for union with us. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis McGinley

Times haven't changed all that much. Every woman still longs for her own Mr. Darcy. — Jen Printy

What seems like weakness to a survivalist is actually a sign of strength to a spiritual warrior who longs to be authentic at all costs. — Jeff Brown

Purity brings freedom, life, love, and a sense of stability and fortification for which every human heart longs. — Eric Ludy

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. — Jane Kenyon

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.] — Horace

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body. — Jostein Gaarder

One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Supreme Being longs to hear His Children talk to Him every day at any time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light. — Frederick Lenz

No one longs to live more than someone growing old. — Sophocles

She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity. — Kate Gordon

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J.R.R. Tolkien

China does not exist. Nevertheless, she longs to be there. — Margaret Atwood

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,
for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons. — Jose Lezama Lima

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. — John Eldredge

The mind longs for what it has missed. — Petronius

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl Von Clausewitz

My Heart burns with a never ending deep passion for Jesus Christ. My Heart longs and even aches for the American church to be in Revival — Joe Joe Dawson

Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness. — Vivian Gornick

Every human longs for peace and love. — Hiawatha

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you. — Christopher Pike

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. — Petrarch

Laugh, and the world longs to be your friend. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Every breathing soul longs to overcome. — Ted Dekker

Every single voice - no matter how soft the peep - longs to be heard. — Richelle E. Goodrich

She hates everything that is not what she longs for. — George Eliot

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be. — Betty Rollin

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back — Celeste Ng

As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee. PSALM 42 : 1 — Francine Rivers

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart. — Debasish Mridha

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

God longs to see families and communities restored to the kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

Because how deep the darkness of the heart which longs for control. — Sunil Yapa

The real in me longs for peace.
The unreal in me longs for power. — Sri Chinmoy

We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. — Teresa Of Avila

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story. — Patrick Ness

Bernadette longs for this moment as if it had already passed, as if it could have been. Yet here it is. — Jennifer Egan

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin. — Billy Graham

It helps to remember that nobody likes to be managed. But everybody longs to be included. — Arundhati Subramaniam

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself. — Eckhart Tolle

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Khalil Gibran

I pray that she gets where she longs to be — Anna Katmore

The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! — Sarah Orne Jewett

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. — Graham Greene

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them. — Max Anders

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree. — Rita Dove

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment. — Rollo May

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind. — Dale Carnegie

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart — Subhan Zein

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him. — Mary Renault

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of. — Ivan Klima

God is a Person, not a machine. He longs for fellowship. — Bill Johnson

If we want to see God as he longs for us to see him, we must look at Jesus very closely. — Chip Ingram

Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line. — Alix Christie

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love
and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends. — David Deida

- a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom. — Trevor Noah

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up. — Molly Shannon

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read! — Katherine Mansfield

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? — Tom Baker

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. — Seneca.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera

The human mind ever longs for occupation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

A casual observer can testify only to the moment. And what one sees will always be colored by what one longs to see. — Rebecca Skloot

The Peace you long for also longs for you. — Guy Finley

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by — William Shakespeare

No one is my enemy or the Gospel's ... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free. — Bill Myers

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill. — Ian McEwan

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. — Alan Rickman

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread. — Robin Hobb

The Creator of the universe longs to have a relationship with me. He is my Husband, my Provider, and my closest Confidant as a single parent.
— Lorilyn Roberts

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit — Smith Wigglesworth

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest — Gaston Leroux

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J.G. Holland

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself. — Kenya Hara

-A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone. — Jesse Ball

The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago. — Natalie Gulbis

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him. — Beth Moore

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become! — Max Lucado

Each tear longs to kiss sorrow — Munia Khan

The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go. — Debbie Ford

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away. — Tanna Marie Angers

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more — Ovid