Relief Quotes - Page 27

• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Grief, Drunk, Soul

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

  Cindy Crawford

  Live Your Life, Needs, Life Is

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• The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Rain, Mean, Marijuana

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• For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

  Bill Maher

  Islamic, Iran, Talking

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• I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

  Molly Ivins

  Giving Up, Real, Cancer

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• El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, California, Southern

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Dry Up, Levels, Politics

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• It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Stones, Positively

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• I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.

  Chris Thile

  Real, Voice, People

  "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

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• Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Modern Life, Life Is, Oppression

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Littles, Lasts

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• What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• A bitter drug oft brings relief.

  Ovid

  Drug, Bitter

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• The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

  Samuel Johnson

  Enemy, Affection, Tendencies

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.409

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• O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Disappointment, Tired

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.116

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• To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Reflection, Achievement

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.2835, e-artnow

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• many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

  Judith Martin

  Thanksgiving, Football, People

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• What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

  Rumi

  Life, God, Emptiness

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• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

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• All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

  Mary McCarthy

  Laughter, Tears, Watches

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• 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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