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Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others. -- Rami M. Shapiro
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
No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived. -- Steve Largent
Miami has embraced me and I love them for that. -- Lil Wayne
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. -- Bruce Campbell
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. -- Ambrose Bierce
I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end. -- Novak Djokovic
I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design. -- Seal
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
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 find in Christianity. -- Jermaine Jackson
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. -- Howard Dean
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. -- Huston Smith
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
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 to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. -- Jay Inslee
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it. -- Matthew Quick
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? -- George Orwell
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 is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. -- Cat Stevens
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. -- Jacqueline Carey
I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn. -- Penelope Cruz
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. -- Mike Birbiglia
I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd. -- Martin Gore
Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure. -- George Foreman
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. -- Eric Schlosser
I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun. -- Tony Gwynn
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born. -- Jamais Cascio
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. -- Reince Priebus
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. -- William Gibson
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
New York has always embraced me. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Life should be embraced like a lover. -- Rose Tremain
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As a nation, we have never embraced aging, -- Denise Lewis
He embraced his weirdness, and it was nice. -- Amy Zhang
I had embraced you...long before i hugged you. -- Sanober Khan
Close to your breath, I have embraced the world. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace. -- Franklyn Ajaye
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I always wonder when it was that I was embraced. -- Joe Biden
All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced. -- George Santayana
In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind. -- Jim Rash
I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead. -- Donna Air
I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper. -- Tahiry Jose
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. -- Bethany McLean
I could never have embraced this many people with two arms. -- Bethany Hamilton
When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world. -- Daphne du Maurier
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome. -- Danny Meyer
I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly. -- Elisabeth Rohm
From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced. -- Willa Gibbs
Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival. -- Faraaz Kazi
They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together. -- William Shakespeare
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced. -- Mark McGwire
Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it, -- Emmanuel Lubezki
Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision. -- Richie Norton
I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities. -- Tim Scott
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover -- Rumi
You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it. -- Jane Espenson
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; -- W. H. Auden
I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it. -- Jason Alexander
Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. -- Mona Charen
If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown. -- Dean Koontz
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. -- Sylvia Earle
It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced. -- Garth Brooks
I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change. -- Warren Littlefield
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. -- Ruth Simmons
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. -- Oliver Stone
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets. -- Jay Samit
The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel -- Orlando Bloom
Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity. -- Ryan Holmes
All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads. -- Andrea T. Goeglein
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. -- Jerry Saltz
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. -- Julian Baggini
People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology. -- Chelsea Peretti
Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced. -- Rick Riordan
I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it. -- Hugh Jackman
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. -- Dean Koontz
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. -- Phil Collins
Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. -- Glen Duncan
The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out. -- Sky Ferreira
I have embraced the challenge of my life.I will be all that I can be. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers. -- Dave Barry
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. -- Arthur Peacocke
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. -- Mary Blakely
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone. -- Jim Gaffigan
Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. -- Francis Parkman
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego. -- Dallas Willard
A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. -- Jim Walsh
A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced. -- Ana Claudia Antunes
I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too. -- Kimberly Elise
I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life. -- Gillian Jacobs
The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today -- Timothy Long
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. -- Ava DuVernay
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme. -- Ken Stott
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme. -- Ken Stott
Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. -- Diana DeGette
I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. -- Christina Aguilera
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga. -- Padma Lakshmi
The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared.It was to be embraced. -- Heather R. Blair
The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected. -- David B. Axelrod
The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process. -- Renaldo Nehemiah
I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way. -- Phil Robertson
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead. -- Meir Soloveichik
I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. -- John Oates
God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel. -- Jerry Bridges
My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much. -- Yoko Ono
I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. -- Andy Rourke
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. -- Thomas Carlyle
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism. -- Ayn Rand
I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life. -- Josh Young
Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced. -- Kate Atkinson
Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny. -- Zygmunt Bauman
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. -- Warren Buffett
Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. -- Guy Sajer
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished. -- Louise Erdrich
And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling. -- Alison Croggon

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