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Quotes About Embrace

So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
~ John Milton
As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.
~ John Milton
I didn't keep count of our ejaculations, though our moans and cries were loud and unrestrained, transforming the mesmerizing music into a symphony all our own.
~ Unknown
No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
~ John Muir
So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.
~ John O'Donohue
Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. Every one longs for intimacy and dreams of a nest of belonging in which one is embraced, seen, and loved. Something within each of us cries out for belonging. We can have all the world has to offer in terms of status, achievement, and possessions. Yet without a sense of belonging it all seems empty and pointless.
~ John O'Donohue
We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.
~ John O'Donohue
So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced. This is what the "sheltering wall" of blessing can enable.
~ John O'Donohue
but I do believe one ought to recognize the irreversible nature of reality, particularly if one wants to avoid it.
~ Unknown
to his cheek, and went back to the bed.
~ John Sandford
I didn't choose the Nerd Life. The Nerd Life chose me. Awkwardly and without making eye contact.
~ John Scalzi
Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.
~ John Scalzi
if you could accept yourself right now, and everyone and everything around you, as perfectly okay…if you could let go of the idea that there are things in the world and parts of yourself that you just can't accept…if you could stop resisting reality and surrender to the present moment as God's perfect creation…you'd immediately be able to relax, embrace life, open your heart, and smile at God's creation rather than hold it in judgment.
~ Unknown
It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
~ John Steinbeck
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
~ John Steinbeck
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
~ John Steinbeck
It's a thing to see when a boy comes home. It's a thing to see.
~ John Steinbeck
It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.
~ John Steinbeck
It's a good thing to be loved, even late.
~ John Steinbeck
La donna può cambiare meglio dell'uomo, disse Ma' in tono rassicurante. La donna la vita ce l'ha tutta nelle braccia. L'uomo ce l'ha tutta nella testa. Non ti devi scoraggiare. Magari... be', magari l'anno prossimo abbiamo un posto tutto per noi.
~ John Steinbeck
You couldn't get into him—he couldn't get out to you. But in that old agony there had been no wall. In his wife Adam had touched the living world.
~ John Steinbeck
The slither of sheers as she rotates her body is a silver music, sheets of pale noise extending outward unresisted by space. There was a grip he used to have on her, his right hand cupping her skull through her hair and his left hand on her breasts gathering them together, so the nipples were an inch apart. The grip is still there.
~ John Updike
Can I just sit here for a moment? Human contact, and all that. There's one thing you don't get much in Starfleet—a hug. They ought to have a couple of people in charge of hugs, just to dispense them randomly.
~ Unknown
The thing is, all the stuff that people hate about the art world, I love. I embrace all the elitism. I think it's hilarious. I love impenetrable art writing. I make fun of it, but I make fun of things I love. I don't hate the art world at all. I find it fascinating. It's a secret club; you have to learn the rules.
~ John Waters