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Quotes About Relief

Valdez, said Coach Hedge with surprising gentleness. Let me take the wheel. You've been steering for two hours. Two hours? Yeah. Give me the wheel. Coach? Yeah, kid? I can't unclench my hands.
~ Rick Riordan
That's a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.
~ Rick Riordan
It was a relief to everyone, especially his wife, when, three years after he retired, he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of an argument with a neighbor who had parked his car in front of their house.
~ Kate Atkinson
When Edna was at last alone, she breathed a big, genuine sigh of relief.
~ Kate Chopin
And he marveled, too, at how different he felt inside, how much lighter, as if he had set something heavy down and walked away from it, without bothering to look back.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Smoking helped me think and calmed my nerves, which I had in excess.
~ Kathleen Rooney
I am proud that I fought so hard against the world, relieved that I made my fragile truce with it. I can greet it now, from time to time, as it really is.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Samantha said, I should be at the carnival. I have things to do. Sam, do we have to keep arguing about this? He handed her a cup but didn't let go until she met his gaze. I want you here. I need you here. She hesitated, then nodded. Okay, fine. It might not have been gracious acceptance, but at least it was acceptance, and Lucas was visibly relieved. Jaylene knew why. Samantha could be rather slippery when she didn't want to be somewhere.
~ Kay Hooper
Time finally did bring relief. But it took its own, and not terribly sweet, time in doing so.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
But to be frank, there's much relief around the company. We feel now we can forget our past transgressions and look to the future. It was a great thing our President did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. Nothing weird on his breath. Smells . . . like toothpaste. Derek's eyes opened, and the first thing he saw was Tori's face inches from his. He jumped and let out an oath. Simon cracked up. I madly motioned for him to be quiet. Are you okay? I asked Derek. He is now, Simon said. After Tori jump-started his heart.
~ Kelley Armstrong
As they neared the spot from which the noise had come, Moria saw a hand lying on the pathway. It appeared to be attached to a body, which was a relief. Again, these days, one could not guarantee such a thing.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Alison was relieved: she would have hated to see Mary lose her dignity as well as her life. "Follow me," said the sheriff. Mary turned back momentarily and took an ivory crucifix from its hook on the wall over the altar. With the cross pressed to her heavy bosom and the prayer book in her other hand she walked behind the sheriff, and Alison followed.
~ Ken Follett
Therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office." "Yes!" George punched the air. "He's done it! He's gone!" What Maria felt was not so much triumph as relief. She had woken up from a nightmare. In the dream, the highest officers in the land had been crooks, and no one could do anything to stop them.
~ Ken Follett
luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una
~ Ken Follett
A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.
~ J.R. Miller
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
~ Amy Carmichael
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
~ Timothy Keller
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr
~ Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.
~ W. W. Walford