Book Of Embraces Quotes

#1. Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Jonathan Raban

#2. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Jesse Ventura

#3. After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

George W. Bush

#4. I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work - and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times - until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#5. He slid his saxophone under the bed before we got naked on it, and I think it made the whole thing better. I really do.

Charlie Close

#6. So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Teju Cole

#7. Look your best - who said love is blind?

Mae West

#8. I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

Denis Johnson

#9. We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look *anywhere* for a mythology that embraces people like ourselves.

Kate Bornstein

#10. I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

Liv Ullmann