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There was a period when God seemed absent, and an unexplained yearning filled my being. When His presence returned, joy and peace enveloped me. Today, I realize that true fulfillment for humanity is found in communion with God. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 1 month ago
eschew the desire for simplicity, and set your sights on fortitude’s ascent. Embrace obstacles, for within them lie the seeds of boundless potential. Rather than yearning for ease, crave the wisdom to navigate the labyrinth of challenges, and in their conquering, unveil the profound artistry of life’s intricate design.” – Christen Kuikoua	added by anonymous 4 months ago
For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent. – Azeez Olajide Adediran	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill. – David Abbott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning. – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson	added by davidb 3 years ago
I wanted to do' Oatmilk' like that cause the song was so full of yearning and sadness and I thought it would be funny for it to be really emo and sad. – Chelsea Peretti	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think the American people are yearning for someone who's a truth-teller, sometimes the best way to make that point is to be a little bit disagreement with your own party, right ? – Former Rep. John Delaney	Found on CNN 4 years ago
To suggest Senator Collins has changed is laughable. Senator Collins is constantly being criticized by extremists on the far left and the far right, yet Senator Collins has never wavered, republicans, Democrats, and Independents are yearning for pragmatic, common sense leadership, and that's what Senator Collins has always, and will continue to, bring to the table. – Kevin Kelley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But Judy Garland paid a price in a childhood lost to Hollywood, an emotional exhaustion and a yearning for a' normal' life beyond the rainbow. – Read MoreHe	Found on CNN 4 years ago
White babies would not be treated the way these babies of color are being treated, Madam Secretary, this is about color. We've opened our doors, your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. Except we now have our quota of people of color. – Democratic Rep. Al Green	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is this tension. I don't fully understand it. I think it's as much psychological, maybe more than political, as to what people are yearning for. I mean, freedom is burdensome. It's hard getting up and taking responsibility for yourself and trying to make all these decisions. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I hope [' Crazy Rich Asians' ] opens the floodgates for other people of color, for Latinos, for the LGBTQ community to be able to tell our own stories, people are yearning for these stories, they are thirsty for these stories and these stories have value. – Nico Santos	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There’s an enormous amount of pain and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it, the flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of ‘ Ahhhh ! ’ when Nicole Kidman have the child. – Nicole Kidman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have matured. I'm tempered. I'm wiser. But I'm still the same guy President Donald Trump on Wednesday know yearning to serve President Donald Trump on Wednesday every chance I get, michael Grimm always goes the distance. – Michael Grimm	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Mitscher has been under way for almost 30 days before we pulled in here, so the sailors are yearning for some New York pizza and just getting out on the town and doing some sightseeing, the 9/11 Memorial is fairly new, not a lot of sailors have seen that, so we are looking forward to checking that out. – Matt Cox	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Sometimes the parent has OD'd, sometimes the parent is in prison or they're just gone and the kids don't know where they are. It's a deep sense of loss, that yearning for a relationship with their parent. – Mary Jo Dendy	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Imagine saying yes... To that secret yearning inside you. – Jen Ramsey	added by jenramsey 6 years ago
Imagine saying yes ... to that secret yearning inside you. – Jen Ramsey	added by jenramsey 6 years ago
The things we’ve been taught to think about giving and about charity and the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world. – Dan Pallotta	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down. – Susan Matt	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was constrained businessmen who were yearning for something lighthearted and convivial, they would sing these songs associated with their childhood. There was a widespread sense, you could find this now as well, that the nation was in decline, that life was not as simple as it had been in the 1890s, 1910s. – Gage Averill	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm tasting this for the very first time, this is good ... Excellent, really good. I'm not just saying that because it's 'Bernie's yearning.'. – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real and he has credibility on it, and that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the new class now being able to be shown being left out. – Beau Biden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real, and he has credibility on it, and that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the new class now being able to be shown being left out. – Beau Biden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

There was a period when God seemed absent, and an unexplained yearning filled my being. When His presence returned, joy and peace enveloped me. Today, I realize that true fulfillment for humanity is found in communion with God.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

eschew the desire for simplicity, and set your sights on fortitude’s ascent. Embrace obstacles, for within them lie the seeds of boundless potential. Rather than yearning for ease, crave the wisdom to navigate the labyrinth of challenges, and in their conquering, unveil the profound artistry of life’s intricate design.”

– Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
4 months ago

For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent.

– Azeez Olajide Adediran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill.

– David Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning.

– Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

added by davidb
3 years ago

I wanted to do' Oatmilk' like that cause the song was so full of yearning and sadness and I thought it would be funny for it to be really emo and sad.

– Chelsea Peretti

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think the American people are yearning for someone who's a truth-teller, sometimes the best way to make that point is to be a little bit disagreement with your own party, right ?

– Former Rep. John Delaney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

To suggest Senator Collins has changed is laughable. Senator Collins is constantly being criticized by extremists on the far left and the far right, yet Senator Collins has never wavered, republicans, Democrats, and Independents are yearning for pragmatic, common sense leadership, and that's what Senator Collins has always, and will continue to, bring to the table.

– Kevin Kelley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But Judy Garland paid a price in a childhood lost to Hollywood, an emotional exhaustion and a yearning for a' normal' life beyond the rainbow.

– Read MoreHe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

White babies would not be treated the way these babies of color are being treated, Madam Secretary, this is about color. We've opened our doors, your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. Except we now have our quota of people of color.

– Democratic Rep. Al Green

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is this tension. I don't fully understand it. I think it's as much psychological, maybe more than political, as to what people are yearning for. I mean, freedom is burdensome. It's hard getting up and taking responsibility for yourself and trying to make all these decisions.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I hope [' Crazy Rich Asians' ] opens the floodgates for other people of color, for Latinos, for the LGBTQ community to be able to tell our own stories, people are yearning for these stories, they are thirsty for these stories and these stories have value.

– Nico Santos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There’s an enormous amount of pain and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it, the flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of ‘ Ahhhh ! ’ when Nicole Kidman have the child.

– Nicole Kidman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I have matured. I'm tempered. I'm wiser. But I'm still the same guy President Donald Trump on Wednesday know yearning to serve President Donald Trump on Wednesday every chance I get, michael Grimm always goes the distance.

– Michael Grimm

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Mitscher has been under way for almost 30 days before we pulled in here, so the sailors are yearning for some New York pizza and just getting out on the town and doing some sightseeing, the 9/11 Memorial is fairly new, not a lot of sailors have seen that, so we are looking forward to checking that out.

– Matt Cox

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Sometimes the parent has OD'd, sometimes the parent is in prison or they're just gone and the kids don't know where they are. It's a deep sense of loss, that yearning for a relationship with their parent.

– Mary Jo Dendy

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Imagine saying yes... To that secret yearning inside you.

– Jen Ramsey

added by jenramsey
6 years ago

Imagine saying yes ... to that secret yearning inside you.

– Jen Ramsey

added by jenramsey
6 years ago

The things we’ve been taught to think about giving and about charity and the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world.

– Dan Pallotta

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down.

– Susan Matt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was constrained businessmen who were yearning for something lighthearted and convivial, they would sing these songs associated with their childhood. There was a widespread sense, you could find this now as well, that the nation was in decline, that life was not as simple as it had been in the 1890s, 1910s.

– Gage Averill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm tasting this for the very first time, this is good ... Excellent, really good. I'm not just saying that because it's 'Bernie's yearning.'.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real and he has credibility on it, and that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the new class now being able to be shown being left out.

– Beau Biden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real, and he has credibility on it, and that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the new class now being able to be shown being left out.

– Beau Biden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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