Relief Quotes - Page 13

• The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Body, Firsts, Planes

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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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• The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Japan, Break Through

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Fighting, Men, Bravery

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

  Albie Sachs

  Music, Piano, Scratches

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• When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

  George Ayittey

  Uganda, Presidential, Debt

  "African Debt". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. June 12, 2005.

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• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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• One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

  Gwen Ifill

  Debt, Needs, Agree

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Epic, Way, Said

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

  Mariah Carey

  Rock And Roll, Tears, Trying

  Song: Crybaby, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

  Jan Egeland

  Assessment, People, Needs

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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Cancer, Thinking

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• In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Cost, Regulation, Affordable

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  Sam Neill

  Father, Years, Actors

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• It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stupid, Helping, Enough

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• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  Rick Larsen

  Opportunity, Class, Benefits

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• To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Girl, Tv Shows, Wings

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• Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

  Peter York

  Art, Advertising, Source

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• Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Problem, Cures

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• 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

  Christian, Air, Long Ago

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

  Keith Hernandez

  Benches, Pitching

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• Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Order, Errors

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