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Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing. -- William Cowper
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars. -- Steven Rattner
Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! -- Trina Paulus
Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! -- Trina Paulus
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance. -- Arthur Helps
Superior people never make long visits. -- Marianne Moore
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. -- Herbert Hoover
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. -- Richard J. Daley
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony. -- Dalai Lama
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. -- Rowan Williams
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. -- Andrew Weil
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. -- Elliott Abrams
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. -- Jennifer Granholm
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. -- Samuel Johnson
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. -- Alan Bennett
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging. -- Seth Shostak
My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits. -- Arlo Guthrie
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service. -- Susan Collins
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. -- Anita Desai
Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards. -- Don Kardong
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation. -- Mark Batterson
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite. -- Geraldine Brooks
The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls. -- Shinzo Abe
For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities. -- Seth Berkley
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. -- Cat Cora
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else. -- Jack Nicklaus
Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time. -- Deborah Mailman
Peace visits not the guilty mind. -- Juvenal
Long visits don't make for good friends. -- J. M. Coetzee
The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled. -- Diogenes
Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska. -- Ben Nelson
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now. -- Rumi
One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits. -- James Maslow
The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before. -- Roger Ebert
[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. -- Elliot Perlman
One thing I love is to do children's hospital visits. -- James Maslow
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between. -- Robert Blair
I required a destination that was worthy of many visits. -- Robert Genn
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom -- Logan Pearsall Smith
It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa. -- Will Smith
It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home. -- Genie Francis
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents -- Pope Francis
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. -- Moliere
If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season. -- Elliot Cowan
Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between. -- Thomas Campbell
These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave. -- Kami Garcia
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family. -- Francois Gautier
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. -- Robert Reich
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. -- Thomas Gray
Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits. -- George Shearing
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. -- Richard K. Morgan
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply. -- Rumi
You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts. -- Elinor Lipman
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. -- Adam Smith
I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries. -- Samuel P. Huntington
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away. -- John Ratzenberger
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. -- Albert Einstein
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. -- Dan Savage
The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle. -- Gabrielle
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. -- Lucy Powell
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. -- Stanislav Grof
During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them. -- Eric Schlosser
State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world. -- Barack Obama
Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- -- Lora Leigh
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. -- Thomas Paine
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard." -- Marianne Moore
When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications. -- Michael C. Burgess
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten. -- Lisa Kleypas
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident. -- Max Lucado
While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on. -- Jonathan Cain
We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country. -- Rand Paul
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers. -- Cecil Beaton
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. -- John Burnside
Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them. -- Victoria Moran
Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying. -- Rebecca Goldstein
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. -- Donald Miller
Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy. -- Jim Rohn
When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire. -- Roman Polanski
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. -- Jim Butcher
The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between. -- Robert Blair
This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day. -- Ann McLane Kuster
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom. -- Ryokan Taigu
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless. -- Steve Toltz
School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them? -- Julian Fellowes
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity. -- William Shakespeare
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. -- Seneca the Younger
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures. -- Malcolm Bradbury
That's what I'd call him if he was my dog. Jacket-humper. Kinda had a ring to it. Although it seemed a little long for vet visits and intros to lady dogs. -- Jennifer Rardin
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding. -- Thomas a Kempis
I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp. -- Assata Shakur
If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors. -- Rob Payne
a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms with the United States when Nixon visits China. -- Vijay Prashad
I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A. -- Monika Chiang
The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail. -- Fred Thompson
After your visits, I twisted my blinds shut every night. I locked out the stars and I never saw lightning again. Each night, I simply turned out the lights and went to bed. -- Jay Asher
You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path. -- Eve Ensler
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. -- Pankaj Mishra
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road. -- Lisa Loeb
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident. -- John Steinbeck
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. -- Louis Freeh
Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. -- John G. D. Clark
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. -- Louis Freeh

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