Embrace

Famous quotes containing the word embrace:

“Be he as he will, yet once ere night
I will embrace him with a soldier’s arm
That he shall shrink under my courtesy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

“Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)