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Quotes About Relief

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
~ Maxim Gorky
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
~ James Buchan
Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
~ David Ogilvy
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
Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.
~ Besa Kosova
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.
~ Harry Anderson
My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.
~ Nissim Ezekiel
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
~ Walter Isaacson
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
~ Roger Ebert
Music helps not the toothache.
~ George Herbert
Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
~ Primo Levi
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
~ Laurence Sterne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
~ Lynda Williams
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.
~ Rumi
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.
~ Ulisses Soares
For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.
~ Tim Winton
Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"
~ Thomas Hood
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
~ William James
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
~ Walid Jumblatt