Relief Quotes - Page 21

• It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found within us the ability to set differences aside, to provide relief to so many millions of Americans who simply want their life to work again.

  Eric Cantor

  Years, Two, Differences

  "Eric Cantor: Dreamers Should Receive Pathway To Citizenship" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2013.

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• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

  Paul Fleischman

  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Grieving, Trying

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, Peculiar, Charity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

  "Obama Mocks Socialist Attacks: 'I Shared My Toys'" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2008.

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• School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Stupid, School

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• Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Death, Afraid Of Death

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

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• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

  Ovid

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

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• If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Science, Phrases

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Acquisition, Facts

  'Love Me Never or For Ever'

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• By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.

  John Owen

  Jesus, Art, Yield

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Fun, People

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• Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas its nightmares. Most of the paintings of the great painters like Paul Gaugin or Picasso are almost like vomit. They could not contain their agony and suffering - it was so much they threw it on the canvas to get relief. The real objective art is not a relief; it is not a sickness that you want to get rid of. It is a blissfulness that you want to share. And by sharing, it grows; you have more of it, the more it is shared.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Real, Creativity

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• Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

  Joseph O. Shelby

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Favors

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• I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?

  Albert Hofmann

  Dream, Eye, Past

  Jonathan Ott, Albert Hofmann (1997). “Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History”

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• A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Long, Track

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• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  Gabor Mate

  Addiction, Drug, Behaviour

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.33, Knopf Canada

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• 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, Mother, Stress

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• But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
  The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
  Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Shade, Murmuring

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.7

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• May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

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• There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Courage, Believe, Trust No One

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• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Giving, Criticism

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• Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Art, Health, Science

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• It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

  Robert Pattinson

  Giving, Levels, Privacy

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• During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Doctors, Years, Numbers

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