Relief Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eat
  • Relief
  • Seeks

• Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Radio
  • Stereo
  • Bailey`s Cream

• On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Daughter
  • My Life
  • Relief

• They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.

  

  Bob Shaw
  • Lost
  • Row
  • St. Louis

• After the other guys did the job in relief, I was supposed to nail down the shutout for Felix after a great start. You hate to lose that zero, but we did get the win, and that's what it's all about.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Job
  • Win
  • Supposed

• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Death
  • Interviews

• It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Lines
  • Fronts
  • Tape

• 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

• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Littles
  • Relief

• Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Hope
  • Torture
  • Relief

• In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Men
  • Sometimes
  • Genesis

• 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

• Bruce sees a lot of himself in Batman, you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to Duke's parents, who are now Joker-ized. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Parents
  • Batman
  • Relief

• The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

  

  Albie Sachs
  • Records
  • Relief
  • Scratches

• Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • People
  • Debt
  • Relief

• We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Fight
  • Families
  • Relief

• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Painting
  • Relief

• I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

  

  Boman Irani
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Comic

• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • Forever
  • Destination
  • Disconnected

• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrow
  • Relief
  • Woe

• Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Happy
  • Cry
  • Relief

• Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Trying
  • Terror
  • Worthwhile

• I'm just like the relief pitcher in the bullpen keeping my arm warm until they call on me. That's the role I take. It provides great continuity for recruiting, just for the direction of the program.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Recruiting

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