Embraced Quotes
293 Embraced quotes by 271 unique authors
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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have…
— Jay Inslee
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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to…
— Jermaine Jackson
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If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically,…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
— Demi Lovato
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I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I…
— Nelson Mandela
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality,…
— Marlee Matlin
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Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with…
— Barack Obama
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My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes.…
— Bill O'Reilly
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot…
— George Orwell
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As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.
— Henry Paulson
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented…
— Nancy Pelosi
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
— Jerry Saltz
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To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If…
— Sharon Salzberg
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,…
— Jane Smiley
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I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam…
— Cat Stevens
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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam -…
— Cat Stevens
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
— Oliver Stone
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Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.
— Lil Wayne
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Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'
— Johnny Weir
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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
— Julian Baggini
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...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
— Bell Hooks
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What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once…
— Audre Lorde
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I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they…
— Jonathan Lethem
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They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
Who Wrote These Embraced Quotes
271 authors contributed a total of 293 Embraced Quotes, led by these top contributors: