#embrace

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#come #comedy #concert #either #embrace

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#embrace #knowledge #recognition #salutation #something

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

#before #come #conduct #contact #did

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 - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#anyone #been #black-and-white #convert #days

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#challenges #confront #each #embrace #grander

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#contemporary #culture #embraces #keeps #looks

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faulfinder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#glances #love #love

Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess." "Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#night-embrace #talon #humor

I pushed passed him. He grabbed my hand and swung me back towards him. Then he pushed me against the wall and... he kissed me. He ran his thumb along my jawline and down my throat, hips pinning me to the wall. He kissed me slowly and with intensity, and once I got over the mind-numbing shock and comprehended what was actually happening, it was incredible. I had never been kissed like that before. We melted together. Every movement of mine was somehow perfectly mirrored by his. My heart was pounding so hard I knew he must be able to feel it and I was sure my legs were giving way, but he held me up, pushed me harder against the wall. I grabbed a handful of his hair, remembering all the times I'd dreamed of doing it. I let my hand drift down his back and pulled him even closer to me. It all happened so quickly. I heard him make a low kind of growl and lean into me. His hand slid down my leg behind my knee, drawing it to him. I moaned and felt him tense. ↗

— Jessica Shirvington

#jessica-shirvington #kissing #lincoln-wood #love #making-out