The Embraced Quotes

When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange. ~ Brigid Brannagh

At first, I thought it was only your body I wanted. But something about you has made me greedy as hell. I want everything. Your love. Your mind. Your secrets. Your soul. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

He searched her eyes, and there it was. A sense of time slowing down. A world melting away with only two souls remaining. An eternity of longing. Bittersweet and desperate.
Couldn't she feel it, too? ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them. ~ Jean Liedloff

Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita ~ Jill Mansell

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego. ~ Dallas Willard

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad. ~ Billy Joel

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again. ~ Daniel Handler

There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all shapes and sizes, age, ethnic background should be embraced and celebrated. ~ Erin O'Connor

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. ~ Guy Sajer

Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.
'S-so sweet, Dudders ... ' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy ... s-saying thank you ... '
'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!'
'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like I love you. ~ J.K. Rowling

Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding. ~ Gail Carriger

My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident when he was hitchhiking to take a job. She has longed for him all these years, and now she is with him. I know they are embraced in happiness. ~ Terry Kay

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. ~ Mos Def

I had embraced you...
long before i hugged you. ~ Sanober Khan

I've always embraced my differences, but, there are others who misinterpret my intentions. ~ Angel M.B. Chadwick

Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451.
And I might observe that you have embraced corpocracy propaganda wholeheartedly, Archivist. ~ David Mitchell

He treated her like a china doll that needed to sit on a high shelf and be admired but never handled. Marietta didn't want to be admired from a distance. She wanted to be touched. Held. Embraced. By him. ~ Karen Witemeyer

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together. ~ William Shakespeare

He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so. ~ Becky Chambers

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage. ~ Abdelaziz Bouteflika

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology. ~ Chelsea Peretti

I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained. ~ Frank O'Hara

In fact, I didn't like heights, closed-in places, places that were too open - give me a phobia and I embraced it enthusiastically. ~ Kristina Douglas

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it. ~ Jason Alexander

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such. ~ Sherri Saum

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family. ~ Tamara Tunie

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. ~ Andy Rourke

One may not go and find love, it must be embraced. ~ T.F. Hodge

But brokenhearted was brokenhearted. Never embraced. Never treasured. Never easy. Heath figured every human being had a certain amount of God-ordained grace to endure their own unique brand of loss and pain. ~ Rachel Hauck

You and I are so much alike, Isa; different, but alike. You threw yourself into your artwork to help cope with your abusive situation and to let your secret desires out, and I embraced it to forget about my parents' death. ~ Ella Dominguez

Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born. ~ Nevada Barr

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing. ~ Natalie Cole

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before? ~ Jeremiah Denton

I loved growing up in Montclair ... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change. ~ Warren Littlefield

There was a girl, once upon a time and in your time. She embraced her life up to a point, then rejected it, and from that rejection have come all her difficulties. ~ Margo Jefferson

I know what this is. I know this is my truth. My past. My present. My future. It is what I knew all along and, like a freaking idiot, ignored because my beautiful illusion was so much better than my tragic reality.
For once, I had embraced happiness. Bliss. In spite of finding out what I was, finding out that I was a half Light, half Dark inbreed, I was happy. Even with a damn supernatural assassin out for my
blood, I was content. Because of him. He made me whole. A new and improved Gabs. A girl that wanted to be good enough. For him.
Fuck. Him. ~ S.L. Jennings

With each challenging situation, each nightmare - each new piece of grit embraced and transformed - I came through with a more loving family, deeper friendships, and an even more profound relationship with God. ~ Sharon E. Rainey

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance. ~ Gary Hayden

No matter how she had suffered, Darby hadn't retreated from life after all. In fact, she'd embraced it. Quietly, carefully, but with dignity and love. ~ Fiona Davis

Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced ~ Ricky Maye

Bob and I [Carl Bernstein]embraced and held each other briefly. There was a whole lifetime of emotions and journalism in this moment. ~ Bob Woodward

She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears. ~ Lois Lowry

What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case? ~ Rachel Hartman

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced. ~ Tony Evans

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way. ~ Flo Rida

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced. ~ Carolyn Wells

Amidst such Soulful freedom, Christmas is never hindered - but, freely embraced. ~ Eleesha

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. ~ Christina Aguilera

By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties. ~ Mary C. Neal

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that. ~ Bennett Miller

She was strong. She had embraced his world. His soul was intact, and that mattered to him. Living mattered to him. ~ Christine Feehan