“ I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ”
- Giuseppe Garibaldi- Copy
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“ The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ Ignorance is like the itch — the less you have of it the better off you are. ”
- Harry Mendelson- Copy
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“ Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. ”
- Randall Wallace- Copy
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“ The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ”
- J. Saunders Redding- Copy
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“ The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty. ”
- Tyra Banks- Copy
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“ The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is. ”
- Nigel Mansell- Copy
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“ Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. ”
- Roald Dahl- Copy
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“ Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ”
- Carol Nelson- Copy
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“ It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange… ”
- Carson McCullers- Copy
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“ To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself… ”
- William Barclay- Copy
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“ O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,With energies immortal!To many a heaven of Desire,Our yearning opes a portal!And tho' Age wearies by the way,And hearts break in the furrow,We'll sow the golden grain Today — The Harvest comes tomorrow. ”
- Gerald Massey- Copy
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“ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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