I feel a yearning for the university.

But what normally preoccupied them also involved yearning to know.

It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.

But more importantly, it spoke of a deeper yearning, something far more sophisticated than hunting magic.

Purpose the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

Look around you. There are lots of organizations like that, waiting to be liberated, their employees yearning to breathe free.

People are yearning to measure the full distance of their potential on behalf of the causes that they care about deeply.

Though much has changed in our world over the last 60 years, one thing has remained constant mankind's yearning for peace, dignity and freedom.

Because we too often talk about them as these strong, huge masses of people yearning to be free, when in fact, it's quite an amazing story.

In any case, it is a starting point, although it does not meet all the expectations of a world yearning for stability, progress, justice and peace.

The new Secretary General comes to office with the world yearning to solve festering problems. Importantly, there is already broad agreement on a set of shared goals.

I've just come back from Pakistan, where literally thousands of people came to my lectures, because they were yearning, first of all, to hear a friendly Western voice.

The document makes absolutely no reference to one of the worst threats to humankind's future or to the universal and profoundly human yearning for comprehensive and unconditional nuclear disarmament.

That most movements, most leadership that we're doing is about finding a group that's disconnected but already has a yearning not persuading people to want something they don't have yet.

Throughout landlocked Bolivia, the memory of a coastline lost to Chile in a bloody 19th century resource conflict is still vivid as is the yearning to sail the Pacific Ocean once more.

And I'm at a stage in life where I'm yearning for my old days, so I want to confess to you that when I was a kid, indeed, I was a conservative.

Women, of course, are not alone in their opposition to Berlusconi, but they made the difference in Milan. They are the incarnation of modernity, animated by a yearning for simple dignity and respect.

In the end, Putin has what history left him not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power. Lenin and Trotsky needed a party to make their ideology a reality

Does that mean that you think that the other things we think our brains are about the dreaming, the yearning, the falling in love and all these things are a kind of side show, an accident?

Consider Liu Zhijun, the former railway minister, who propelled China s frenzy of high speed rail construction. His yearning for professional achievement and, especially, his desire to be promoted motivated his significant contributions to China s GDP growth.

So We answered him, and gave him John, curing his wife (of sterility). They raced with each other in good works and called on Us out of yearning and awe, and they were humble to Us.

So We answered him, and gave him John, curing his wife (of sterility). They raced with each other in good works and called on Us out of yearning and awe, and they were humble to Us.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

We should strive to build this planet where we were born and grow into a harmonious family where our shared yearning for a good life for all the people of the world can be turned into a reality.

I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world.

These clashing interests will be played out after September 25, when the two month period during which Lebanon s parliament must elect a president begins. No side has a yearning for war, which is why compromise solutions are possible.

After a period of difficulty in international affairs, in the face of both new threats and old ones in new guises, there is a yearning in many quarters for a new consensus on which to base collective action.

Disillusion with politics and politicians also is a key element of our yearning for providential leaders. In France for example, the overly flattering commemoration of President François Mitterrand s death ten years ago primarily reflects widespread disillusion with his successor, Jacques Chirac.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past. But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

Since September the 11th, when my work on Islam suddenly propelled me into public life, in a way that I'd never imagined, I've been able to sort of go all over the world, and finding, everywhere I go, a yearning for change.

And states, despite their reticence to be formally bound by preset terms, recognize this. From trade regulations and nuclear non proliferation to climate action and maritime boundaries, there is a yearning for the clarity and certainty that only hard law can provide.

So We answered him, and bestowed on him John, and We set his wife right for him truly they vied with one another, hastening to good works, and called upon Us out of yearning and awe and they were humble to Us.

So We answered him, and bestowed on him John, and We set his wife right for him truly they vied with one another, hastening to good works, and called upon Us out of yearning and awe and they were humble to Us.

In the end, Putin has what history left him not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power. Lenin and Trotsky needed a party to make their ideology a reality Putin and Medvedev are devising an ideology to solidify their party.

But it would be a mistake to see this public recognition of Stalin as a real yearning for every aspect of the system he created. Instead, acknowledging Stalin is a way for Russians to recall a time of great deeds and perhaps even greater sacrifices.

Indeed, the Jasmine Revolution embodies all the tenets of the liberal political order that the West has been advocating since the Atlantic Charter of 1941 a yearning for freedom, opportunity, and the rule of law. Moreover, Tunisia s revolution was indigenous, not imported as part of some forcible regime change.

It is about the contemporary resonance of Lazarus's startling words, the only ones in which a state has appeared to invite not just any old immigrants, but the poorest of the poor Your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not intervene in events in the Arab world. Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.

Most of its people would welcome a more entrepreneurial environment, but they have been beaten down by years of criticism, constraints, regulations, and arbitrary budget cuts. As a system, NASA is resistant to change, but inside there are thousands of people yearning to experiment and learn from both successes and failures.

While the yearning for dignity, freedom of expression, and real democratic participation was the driving force underlying the Arab revolutions, economic discontent played a vital role, and economic factors will help to determine how the transition in the Arab world unfolds. Here, three fundamental and longer term challenges are worth bearing in mind.

Neither the old statist left, nor the rent seeking, crony capitalist right had policies to respond to the yearning for inclusion. New political forces in the Arab world, Islam inspired or social democratic, will have to propose policies that do not just perpetuate rent seeking capitalism or reliance on a discredited state bureaucracy.

Rothberg was killed because the yearning for peace deafened his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush. Dayan Barak warned that beyond the furrow of the (Gaza) border, a sea of hatred and desire for revenge is swelling, awaiting the day when serenity will dull our path.

While the yearning for dignity, freedom of expression, and real democratic participation was the driving force underlying the Arab revolutions, economic discontent played a vital role, and economic factors will help to determine how the transition in the Arab world unfolds. nbsp Here, three fundamental and longer term challenges are worth bearing in mind.

It is of course vital in such situations that we identify the best, or at least the most feasible, way forward predictability provides a foundation for cost benefit analysis and strategic thinking. The problem arises when our yearning for certainty overwhelms rational thinking, taking our ideas and actions in an unproductive or even dangerous direction.