Relief Quotes

• Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • War

• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • New York
  • Relief
  • Rule-bound

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Gone
  • Loathe

• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Good
  • Light
  • Friendship

• Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Work
  • Education
  • Workers

• I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • More
  • Relief
  • Pitcher

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Pleasure
  • Relief

• How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Kind
  • Building
  • Bird

• It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Sense

• Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's not the problem When I'm falling I'm in peace It's only when I hit the ground It causes all the grief

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Problem
  • Grief
  • Relief

• I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Understanding
  • Notion
  • Relief

• How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Silent
  • Goodbyes
  • Empty House

• We tend to be desensitized by the non-stop media coverage of the relief effort, thinking there's nothing more we can do. We're just happy to have a song and a video that keeps the awareness of how monumental this task is and that we have to keep trying to do everything we can to help.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Help
  • Task
  • Coverage

• If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eat
  • Relief
  • Seeks

• Even though I knew I was inside the space shuttle getting ready to go fly, something about it wasn't completely real up until we got the call at about one minute to go, to close and lock our visors and start our oxygen flow. People often ask me, "What did it feel like right at the moment of launch?" And they're surprised when I tell them actually what I felt was relief. It wasn't like being anxious or scared or anything. It was relief because this is something I had wanted to do my whole life and now that the boosters had lit, we were on our way to go do it and nothing was going to stop us.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Disguise

• Their officers are working 20 hours a day, and they were just worn out, ... They wanted to have some relief for their officers.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Working
  • Relief
  • Officers

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

• The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • May
  • Happy
  • Thought

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