“I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.” WantCharacterChristianityElementsEmbraceDefinedConservatismBlackness Author:J. C. Watts
“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.” HumansDoeFormMotherStuffWaterHuman BeingsAnimalElementsUniversalBasesEmbracePlantVariousManifestationDistinctionRise AboveSuppliesPrimalHumans And AnimalsPlants And Animals Author:Theodor Schwenk
“It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.” YearsTakenElementsEmbraceShiningWho I Am Author:Shelby Lynne
“I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.” IfsGivingWritingJoyValuesMissingDegreesElementsDignityEmbraceIf I Could Author:Philip Levine
“I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.” ThinkingDesireOpportunityElementsEmbraceBlindedCelibacySexual Desire Author:Edwina Findley
“Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.” ShouldSocialPartySacrificeEconomicTheoryElementsSeasonsEmbraceImmigrationPrimariesContributionAgendasRhetoricDoomedRomneyInsensitive Author:Eliot Spitzer
“I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of the rain; a racer should embrace the rain. I, alone, could manifest a change around me. By changing my mood, my energy, I allowed Eve to regard me differently. And while I cannot say that I am a master of my own destiny, I can say that I have experienced a glimpse of mastery, and I know what I have to work toward.” KnowsShouldI CanWantedEnergyMy OwnDestinyMastersElementsRainRegardEmbraceMoodManifestMasteryUnpredictableGlimpseRacers Author:Garth Stein