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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

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

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

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

Ebenezer Elliott

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Emma Lazarus

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Henry Ward Beecher

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Hugh Hefner

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

Jimmy Carter

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck

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

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Sarah Doudney

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

Ursula K. LeGuin

647. You Feed the Hungry

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Roy Howard

... are restless until we find our rest in thee,” he prayed. The temptation is to satiate ourselves with junk foods — quick-fix superficial relationships, endless entertainment, consumerism — that keep us going, even transform (or malform) us, but cannot satisfy the deepest yearnings of our hearts for God. Nowhere is the generosity of God’s love shown more clearly than at the Lord’s table where the hungry children of God are fed. There we relive Christ’s actions when he took the bread, blessed ...

648. Your Wake-up Call

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... served in missions all over the world. He had achieved a goal few people could even dream of. Unfortunately, Chad still felt empty and restless. Had he invested all his energy and skills and time in this goal only to find that it wasn’t what he truly yearned for in life? Think about that for a moment as we return to the story of Paul. At one time, Paul proudly sought his own worthwhile goals. He describes himself as being zealous for God. “Zealous” isn’t a word we use much anymore. It means being ...

649. Measure for Measure

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your thoughts and actions. If you don’t think that’s a tough vow and commitment, you haven’t paid enough attention to the prayer you’ve been praying! Jesus’ parable today about forgiving sins and debts is a powerful one. If we expect and yearn to be forgiven, we must first be willing to forgive. All of us love the idea of “fairness,” “justice,” “equality,” and “come uppance.” But think about it. We love it a lot more when someone else receives it. When it comes our turn to kneel ...

650. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... think I should be able to trust stab me in the back. I seldom succumb to depression, but for one exception: friendly fire. Somehow it takes the wind out of my sails and leaves me floundering. Maybe this is because I’m an optimist and yearn to believe the best of people. It seems incomprehensible that friends and relatives—especially true Christians—would want to wound me. Why would they? If I treat people with kindness and fairness, won’t they treat me the same way? I still struggle over experiences ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 626 to 650 of 679 results

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

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

Dennis Prager

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

Ebenezer Elliott

Emma Lazarus

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

Henry Ward Beecher

Hugh Hefner

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

Jimmy Carter

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John Steinbeck

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

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish