Relief Quotes - Page 24

• Even writers need relief from words.

  Sarah Vowell

  Writing, Needs

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• Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.

  Darrelle Revis

  Eight, Years, Nfl

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• For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Joy, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.

  Shelley Long

  Football, Attitude, Player

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Quality, Embarrassing

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

  Sei Shonagon

  Dark, Worry, Joy

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• When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Trouble, Burden, Ache

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1919). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Dangerous days”

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• I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Real, Struggle

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• Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
  To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

  Hugo Grotius

  Grief, Long

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• New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, New York, Past

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

  Nathanael Greene

  Integrity, Mean, Useless

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Home, Ideas, Taste

  Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Hawes (1982). “Entertaining”, Clarkson Potter

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

  George Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Realizing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I`m going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.

  Jay Carney

  Night, Needs, Economy

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• Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Education, College, House

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

  Julia Roberts

  Phones, Light, Toilets

  "Julia Roberts praises co-star Clive Owen". www.rte.ie. March 9, 2009.

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• Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.330

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Boss, Effort, Around The World

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Struggle, Odds

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

  Lawrence Block

  Hurt, Pain, Liars

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• Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

  Richard Gilman

  Sports, Real, Fans

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• I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Roles, Way

  The Hollywood Reporter’s Actress Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 17, 2012.

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