Relief Quotes - Page 24

• In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

  Michelangelo

  Opinion, Painting, Excellent

  Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait (1968).

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Meaningful, Agriculture, Years

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

  Joan Didion

  Rain, Dark, Clouds

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• To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

  Robert Burchfield

  Book, Reading, Prison

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• But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

  Francisco Goya

  Nature, Eye, Details

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• Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

  John Tillotson

  Men, Cases, Calamity

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• I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Black And White, Light

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• Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

  James Arness

  Pain, Real, Chiropractic Care

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• Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

  Michael Dell

  Heart, People, Generosity

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Commitment, Two, Effort

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• But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Grief, Giving, Bird

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.66

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Regulation

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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

  Sara Cox

  Party, Animal, Honest

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• Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.

  Mark Kostabi

  Sanctuary, Tough, Sometimes

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• Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Together, Vehemence

  Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

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• Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Simple, Simplicity, Speculation

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• Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Needs, Pay

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Years

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Given, Farmers

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Bills, Congress

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• Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Political, Would Be

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Agriculture, Long

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gratitude, Jobs, Attitude

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