The World Yearns Quotes

#1. The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.

Alison MacLeod

#2. There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

H.L. Mencken

#3. The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen Leacock

#4. Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gloria Steinem

#5. If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. You can't multiply wealth by dividing it

Adrian Rodgers

#7. Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world.

Sandor Marai

#8. He let out a growl that shook inside my chest. "Demon."
"Congrats," Roth said tightly. "You know your species. Want a cookie?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Juliette Lewis

#10. If I can bring anyone into that hall [creeds], I have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms [confessions], not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals.7

Justin S. Holcomb

#11. 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

#12. Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

John Battelle

#13. The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a decent life in this world, it is because I know to say no to the thing inside me that yearns, even now, to burn it all down.

Mary Stewart Atwell

#14. Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there
passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. In anteverdant days. The soul of the Coinshot, his will made

Brandon Sanderson

#16. The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

#17. Each of your precious life experiences have led you to this moment.

Kami Guildner

#18. Within everyone there is a place, hidden deep inside, which yearns for 'that' kiss. You know the one I mean, the one that sends your senses reeling, leaving you breathless and when you break away, and finally regain your senses, you know you will never see the world in the same light...

Virginia Alison

#19. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga