“Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature. 5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there. 6. Dream a new kind of ministry. 7. Pray!” IfsKnowsWayWritingKindDreamLiteratureTalkingPrayingInvolvedSolutionsTownsCrisisAbortionPregnancyMinistryAdoptionVolunteerGiverVisitingClinicYour PresenceGood Literature Author:John Piper
“I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.” YearsFallTownsFalling In LoveFascinatingVisitingThailand Author:Tony Parsons
“When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.” FormTeamFieldsMessagesPlantOpponentsFlagsDefeatedVisitingSpearsTauntingTurf Author:Brad Davis
“I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.” IfsYearsKidsSchoolFilmCoursesIndividualStudyStudentsCollegeMajorsSpringProgramMinorsCommitteesJuniorsVisitingFilm SchoolSemesterNyuJunior Year Author:Ed Helms
“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.” NightCultureReadingParticularLateAddSpendingGuidesConfusionToo LateDestinationLocationPreparingLecturesVisitingExoticFlingTour Guides Author:Arthur Frommer
“There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.” NeedsReasonDeeperVisitingUnforgettable Author:Laird Hamilton
“I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!” KnowsWorldMovingPoliticalLeaderKnow HowDevilPaidHatedOfficialsCampsVisiting Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.” Too MuchPrivate LifeGave UpVisitingMeddling Author:Tennessee Williams
“A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.” ChanceCenturyMedicinePatientPhysicians20th CenturyVisitingVoodoo Author:Abraham Flexner
“It's always sort of amazing, sitting in Baghdad, to watch visiting dignitaries being received in the Green Zone by politicians who have usually very little support and seldom go outside the Green Zone.” LittlesWatchesSupportPoliticianSittingGreenZoneVisitingBaghdadGreen Zone Author:Patrick Cockburn
“Visiting a dentist early in life will help keep a kid's smile healthy for years to come. We know good oral health is an important component of good overall health. That's why I'm thrilled to be able to give eligible Ontario kids access to high-quality no-cost dental services.” KnowsGivingYearsImportantHelpingKidsAbleQualityHealthyCostAccessComponentsVisitingDentistHigh QualityDentalOntarioOverall Health Author:Deb Matthews
“Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!” PeopleHoursMercyDisasterFavouriteVisiting Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.” IfsMenGivingMadeMightPastWinningPoorHalfBreakMillionsNewsDollarsHearingLocalsShockOld ManTicketsPastorMillion DollarsVisitingLottery Author:Art Linkletter
“I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.” PeopleWayFeelingsCultureOpportunityClassTeacherInformationStudentsMastersTypeGoes OnMusicianWarmthUnbelievableVisitingInterfacesTeacher And Student Author:Wynton Marsalis
“What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.” ProcessAnimalIdentityLonelySpeciesBeastParksCompanionSignalsGalaxyVisitingZoosAdoptingCommunesCompanion Animals Author:Diane Ackerman
“The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.” PeopleLooksCareWantedDiesProgressSouthProfessionBackgroundsHospitalsJailNurseSophisticatedNursingVisitingBack WhenOutfitsGood Education Author:Eve Hewson
“It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.” YearsWellsSpaceOpinionPeriodsHundredYears AgoPrejudiceMereCeaseImpressionSpotsAestheticVehicleDelightfulVoyagesTouristsVisitingRough Times Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925 Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'” WantStoriesInterestingSeeingMinutesModelsCamerasCirclesVery InterestingBankersVisiting Author:Edwin Land
“Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."” WantStillsBotherFilmmakerOffensiveVisitingUgh Author:Timo Tjahjanto
“I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.” YearsLeftAnd LoveLondonVisiting Author:Jonathan Ive
“The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsMayThreeNaturalTreeEffectsEatingAngelIntentionPassagesBiblicalAbrahamVisitingRabbiGod And Nature Author:Martin Buber
“Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?” IfsKnowsMenKindIdeasTodaySufferingKnowingRiskCarJudgingTvsMoralityEatingMen And WomenSlaveInjusticeDareCoffeeDrivingInequalityBurningDamnMeatTortureWickedGood ManSugarAncestorFleetingRevoltVisitingAppearingDescendantsZoosDamnationEating MeatDriving Cars Author:Stephen Fry
“'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?” PlayEnjoyAudienceWonderfulGreenColleaguesVisiting Author:Theodore Bikel
“The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.” WorldMadeEyeHouseMemoriesRoomsCompanyStudiosEnjoyedHis EyesParksDesirableAbidingPersonaVisitingAmusedHollandBohemianFalconPoshSqualorOddballsGimlets Book:Babble Source: Babble
“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.” KnowsWellsLittlesSaidMotherNamesViewsKnow HowOne DayHollywoodHillsSunsetValleysVansMamaVisitingJewish MotherHollywood Hills Author:Joey Bishop
“... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is] becoming like one of those painted backdrops that photographers use in their studio.” UseHomeRealityEyeViewsBecomingPhotographerPhotographStudiosVisitingVeniceVisitorsBackdrop Author:Christian Boltanski
“While visiting Kenya, former President Clinton was offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter, Chelsea, by a love struck government official. Bill said, "No way!" How does that make Hillary feel? Bill almost gave her up for one cow.” WayFeelsDoeSaidGovernmentPresidentDaughterBillsClintonFormerOfficialsCowsVisitingGoatsKenyaChelseaPresident ClintonGovernment Officials Author:Jay Leno
“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.” PeopleKnowsGivingKidsMotherStuffCrySonAdultsCancerReachingHospitalsReach OutGod KnowsVisiting Author:Mr. T
“Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.” IfsKnowsBookBeautifulReadingDearVisitingDear FriendBeautiful BooksFriends Again Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes” EnjoyClothesShoesPairsShoppingVisitingMallsPair Of ShoesClothes And Shoes Author:Tevin Campbell
“This visa-waiver thing is absurd. Has anybody in the West been targeted by any Iranian national, anybody of Iranian origin, or anyone travelling to Iran? Whereas many people have been targeted by the nationals of your allies, people visiting your allies, and people transiting the territory of, again, your allies. So you're looking at the wrong address.” PeopleHas BeensWestAbsurdAddressesIranTerritoryAlliesVisitingIranianVisaWaiver Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.” PeopleKnowsFeetParisIranAlliesVisiting Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.” PeopleHeartStillsImportantRealCertainMy HeartSouthMusicalConnectedI RealizedSpotsVisitingAncestry Author:Rosanne Cash
“I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensHandsKnowingTeamExperienceRegardPrivilegeAliensInvestigationPrivilegedAstronautUfoVisitingInvestigatingInsidersBriefingFirst Hand Experience Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.” ThinkingPersonsWeekSubjectsMy FriendsRelationCriminalsTreatedVisiting Author:Cecily McMillan
“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.” WritingBookBeautifulStreetsWindowRuinsDescriptionVisitingMerchantsAdventurerBaghdadPortugueseOverlooking Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.” ThinkingSaidI CanStoriesRememberNextWaitingProjectsGoldVisitingWaiting For You Author:Mary J. Miller
“I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.” WritingDifferentRunningWantedNiceTeachingUniversityVisitingBookstores Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“The angels started visiting and helping me as far back as I can remember. I was lonely a lot in my childhood and the angels would come and comfort me, and help me to feel better, and at the same time they would also take me to places. I literally mean they would take me on a journey and tell me things.” FeelsMeanI CanHelpingRememberJourneyChildhoodComfortAngelLonelyHelp MeTake MeFeel BetterVisiting Author:Doreen Virtue
“remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside of Florence. (Boccaccio was the medieval author of The Decameron.) It was as though I had met my muse! After this trip, I read The Decameron and began writing the Alchemy Series in earnest.” WritingFeelingsHomeInspirationRememberMetsSeriesExcitementVillageMuseEarnestMedievalVisitingAlchemyFlorence Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.” ThinkingFirstsCountryStoriesUseHandsAbleSpeakLanguageCommunityInterestingTechnologyGenerationsAverageTeenagerEnglish LanguageEnlighteningReally InterestingVisitingVisitorsAmishUse Of Technology Author:Alyson Stoner
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.” IncreaseVisiting Author:Francis Bacon
“Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].” PersonsTwoHoursEnvironmentImagineEffectsPrisonSatVisitingIntriguedCorrespondence Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.” PeopleIfsNeedsKindWould BeStuffNew YorkPercentTheaterHotelApartmentJunkTouristsVisiting Author:Fran Lebowitz
“And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.” WayDoneWholeShowsFunMemoriesTakenDadMy DadShootingExpansionVisitingPresentingMuppet Author:Brian Henson
“Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.” HomeBigsMotherBabyGuiltMothers DayVisitingCannonsGuilt Trip Author:Kate Siegel
“I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.” SchoolInterestingStudentsVisiting Author:Eric Schlosser
“I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenRealStoriesHappensCommunityCollegePlanetsMembersDegreesScientistOur ChildrenUniversityExpertsFancyHallsVisitingOur CommunityCollege DegreeReal Education Author:Annie Leonard
“Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.” EndsDreamPainMemoriesPleasureConsciousnessEventsExtremesVacationSpectrumVisitingRegisterDentistTagged Author:Deepak Chopra
“I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?” MenWorldYearsDoeWarSeemsDifficultThis WorldRevolutionOffersConflictTwentiesJournalistThirtyZoneTornKoreaNorth KoreaVisitingThirty YearsHaitiLamaDalaiSri LankaWar ZonesBeirut Author:Pico Iyer