On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. – Emanuel Celler
I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all. – David Bowie
Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that’s only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship. – David Ignatius
When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it’s hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn’t feel like me. – Ellen DeGeneres
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. – David Twohy
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. – David Levithan
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability. – Nikos Kazantzakis
The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. – Martin Jacques
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. – P. J. O’Rourke
You’ve got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you’ve got to embrace it. – Matt Groening
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can… reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.’ – Leonard Cohen
I’ll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right. – Kathryn Harrison