Yet, longing for peace, Israelis would be willing to take risks yet again.
One of the decade's most enduring memes has come to an end: Poor Leo, where Leonardo DiCaprio would be pictured longing for the Oscar he'd long been denied.
Thus Hossam Bahgat, founding director of a pressure group, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, admits to having been impressed and surprised when Ms Rice turned up at the American University in Cairo to say exactly what people like him had been longing to hear: that there would be no more American support for dictators.
"If you see the world as a human being, Africa would be the shadow that a lot of people project their fears, longing, sexuality onto," she says.
"I'll take you," I promised, and I found myself longing for the day when she would be well enough to vex me.
When Wilson suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed him in 1919, Marshall steadfastly refused to assume the powers of the presidency without written requests from first lady Edith Wilson and the president's doctor and a congressional resolution, fearing that he would be accused of "longing for [Wilson's] place".
Every time I drove past I couldn't help but let escape a sigh of longing and recognition: One day this would be my home; I just knew it.
But there is something really fun in longing, and that's something that would be fun to play with before anything happens.
You wouldn't be filled with regret or confusion And you wouldn't be full of fear or longing for something else, because you would be doing anything and everything that was true to you.
I began daydreaming, almost longing, for the death of someone who would be important to no one but me.
