Relief Quotes - Page 18

• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  Freeman Dyson

  Brother, Successful, Technology

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.17, Universities Press

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• The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Simple, Differences

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  Carly Fiorina

  School, Law, Decision

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• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  Sadie Frost

  Cynical, Easy, Hours

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, Heart, Sadness

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

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• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, War, Winning

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• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Responsibility, Thinking, Guy

  "Among the wild things" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

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• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Stress, Careers

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• All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Grandparent, Embarrassment

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

  Hugh Laurie

  Hero, Character, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 10, 2012

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• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Idaho, Hydrogen Fuel

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

  Jon Meacham

  Helping Others, Example, Favors

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• I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Who I Am, Please, Lumps

  "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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• Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

  John Thorn

  Past, Employment, Extended Family

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• Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

  J. C. Watts

  Country, Jobs, Talking

  "Gingrich Picks Up Endorsement From J.C. Watts". "Hannity" with Mark Steyn, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2011.

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• I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

  Robert Wyatt

  Nice, Play, People

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Indulge In, Delight

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• ...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

  Charles Frazier

  Children, Pain, Heart

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.39, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

  J. G. Ballard

  Safety, Car, Propaganda

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Thinking, Errors, Ideas

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.15

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• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Comforting, Energy

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• Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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