Relief Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Wire, Ends, Certain

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• If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

  Masiela Lusha

  Passion, Our World, Our Generation

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• Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Heart, Blessing, Soul

  Gene Stratton-Porter (1923). “The White Flag”

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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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• I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

  Catherine Tate

  Negative, Default, Form

  "The Guardian profile: Catherine Tate" by wen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2005.

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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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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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• the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Summer, Nature, Garden

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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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• 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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