I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.
The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
Recess and lunch are the best.
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!
What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
Maybe more businesses should allow time for recess.
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
