Relief Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

  Violette Leduc

  Eternal, Has Beens

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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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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• And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

  Lawrence Block

  Pain, Long, Goes On

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• Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

  Phil Cousineau

  Pain, Moving, Healing

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• Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune.
  A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

  Noah Webster

  Blessing, Compassion, Victim

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• Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

  Ally Condie

  Beautiful, Reading, World

  "'Matched' Author Ally Condie Explains Why Dystopian Novels Rock", www.mtv.com. May 6, 2011.

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• My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

  Bruce Sutter

  Years, League, Firsts

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• I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

  Jake LaMotta

  Home, Boxing, Circus

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• The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Taken, Knowing, Light

  Mary Wells Lawrence (2002). “A Big Life in Advertising”, Knopf

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• During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

  Tom Rachman

  Writing, Past, Careers

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• I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You don't have to believe in anything, even yoga itself, to find joy and solace in the conscious joining of breath and movement, or relief in slowing the whirling of the mind. You just have to do it.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Yoga, Believe, Thinking

  Michelle Goldberg (2015). “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West”, p.10, Vintage

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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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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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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• Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Thinking, Forever

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• I--though heart might find relief
  Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
  What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part.
  Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Christian, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Views, Action

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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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• You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

  George Matthew Adams

  Journey, Doctors, Worry

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• A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, World, Pessimism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.155, 谷月社

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• It came down to the obvious point that all the union cared about was the money and these other things certainly didn't matter enough. It's a tremendous situation that they have and it has become burdensome for the teams. Yes, we're asking for some relief going forward. I don't think that was unreasonable.

  Mike Brown

  Team, Thinking, Nfl

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• my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.

  Andy Samberg

  Character, Laughing, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Blessed, Men

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