A Quote by Portia de Rossi

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

Portia de Rossi

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Portia de Rossi
Australian - Actress
Born: January 31, 1973

I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

Lyle Lovett

[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.

Oprah Winfrey

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

Angela Merkel

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

J. M. Coetzee

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

Hildegard of Bingen

The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

Laozi

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

Holger Czukay

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Robert Lacey

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

Ram Dass

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Lionel Shriver

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Asghar Farhadi

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

Todd Lieberman

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Greta Garbo

Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy.

Deeyah Khan

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

Diane Setterfield

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

Julian Jaynes

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