#yearning

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#beauty #discovery #love #lust #passion

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 confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? ↗

— James Patterson

#unrequited-love #yearning #experience

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness. ↗

— Marion Woodman

#food #longing #love #sweetness #sweets

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hunger #thirst #yearning #freedom

He had no idea what missing was. Missing was lying in the dampness of your tears night after night. Missing was a constant hollow spot in the center of your chest. Missing was a yawning ache that was never satisfied. ↗

— Denise Hunter

#love #missing #the-accidental-bride #yearning #love

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #appropriate #find #hope #i

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#become #beliefs #different #different beliefs #different people

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#free #give #give me #huddled #masses