Relief Quotes - Page 12

• I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

  Alison Bechdel

  Drama, Parent, Tragedy

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Morning, Found, Explanation

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

  Darcey Steinke

  Depressing, Hands, Certain

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

  Pat Cash

  Winning, Wimbledon, Winner

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Air, Land

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• Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting 50 billion dollars worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Agreement, Iran

  " Barack Obama calls on Iran to agree to 10-year freeze on nuclear activity", www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2015.

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, War, Alternatives

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Fight It". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Believe

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• So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Change, People, Pockets

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• Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

  Norman Mailer

  Promise, Murder, Offers

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.14, Random House

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• Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

  Harry Anderson

  Morning, Men, Waiting

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• A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Clouds

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

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• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

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• When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.

  Maile Meloy

  Fighting, Should Have, People

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• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Thinking, Color

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• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Policy Making, Anxiety, Adequate

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.162, Random House

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Dying, Doe, Facts

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

  Goose Gossage

  Style, Done, Pitching

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Worst

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Grief, Fall, Air

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