Embrace Quotes
1949 Embrace quotes by 1364 unique authors
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is…
— Ellen G. White
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it…
— Patti Smith
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Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as…
— Terry Goodkind
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis…
— Gary Hamel
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Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather…
— Beverly Lewis
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!…
— Kate Chopin
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So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
— Tom Robbins
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The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it…
— Gay Hendricks
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Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are…
— Wangari Maathai
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
— Junot Diaz
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she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
— Paulo Coelho
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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
— Anne Rice
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Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
— Leonard Bernstein
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open…
— John Lennon
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,…
— Octavio Paz
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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
— Virginia Woolf
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You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
— Peter F. Hamilton
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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of…
— Anita Shreve
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
— Louisa May Alcott
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In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to…
— George Washington
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She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,…
— Milan Kundera
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
— Joseph Campbell
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