Quotes About Relief

I was so grateful to see Lissa okay that I missed what Eddie had already noticed. "You guys, where are Victor and Robert?" Lissa's face crumpled, and even Adrian looked grim. "Damn it," I said, needing no explanation. Lissa nodded, eyes wide with distraught. "We lost them.

You mean it?" I asked. "Adrian and I are free? No one spying on us or looking over our shoulder?" My dad's jaw dropped. "As free as anyone is in this world," she said ruefully. "Honestly, I think it was a relief to some of them. You're an awful lot of trouble, Sydney Ivashkov.

Jesus looked at these men who had been working hard without relief and said, You deserve a break today. Let's get some rest. Let's take some time off. So they got into a boat, rowed to the other side of the lake, and went out to the desert to rest.

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

Hypnosis, whatever positive suggestions it may implant in the cortex to transduce into neurochemical immunological boosts, also begins with telling the patient to close her or his eyes and become more relaxed. Both closing the eyes and relaxing move the patient from beta waves/outer attention/sympathetic system to alpha-theta waves/inner attention/parasympathetic system.

Maybe he's just some guy. Maybe he doesn't have anything to do with why she left or why she took the money." Meryl Lawrence made a tiny self-loathing snort. "I'll ask her if you can find her." I took the envelope. She watched me put it away but didn't look any less unhappy with herself or relieved. "Thank you." "I promised." She gave me a rueful smile. "If

Are you pleased to hear her living? Is this what you wanted?" Pike hesitated. Keeping his voice level was more difficult this time. He nodded to let Cole and Barkley know she was alive.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release.

You're a vampire?" Shanna's eyes widened. "No. I'm the same as I ever was." "Oh, thank God." Caitlyn pressed a hand to her chest and collapsed onto the chair. "You scared me to death." Shanna smiled. "Relax, sweetie. I'm not a vampire." She patted her arm. "My husband is.

We say the poison is in the dose. The same herb that can relieve a condition can also kill a patient if the dose be too large. And sometimes the efficacious does is large, so near the lethal dose, we have to work by very small increments to avoid taking a life.

Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it.

He supposes he should be relieved. But part of him wishes for something else. Perhaps if she had grimaced at him, said something infantile, full of loathing and hate. An eruption of rancor. Perhaps that might have been better. Instead, a clean, diplomatic dismissal. And this note. Don't worry. You're not in it. An act of kindness. Perhaps, more accurately, an act of charity. He should be relieved. But it hurts. He feels the blow of it, like an ax to the head.

the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.

I like where I live," he said, landing behind the side pocket in his best Peter Pan pose. "You two women are too flaky to put my family in your hands. Just ask anyone here. They'd agree with me!" Ivy huffed and turned her back on him, muttering under her breath, but I could tell she was relieved her new landlord wasn't her mom.

The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Ogen's drool pinged my cheek. This would be my last sight? Almost a relief when my lids slid shut and scenes flashed through my mind. I beheld Jack's face as he'd gazed down at me in that suspended moment of time. So perfectly, I saw him. Heard him. I am home, Evangeline. Finally found the place I'm supposed to be. With my death, would Matthew tell him to stop hunting, to stop searching?

One never really knew just how taxing pain was till one was free of it and could feel the difference.

Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.

Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive.

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.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

He found himself, according to his ideas, in the land of Topsyturvydom. Everything was upside down. He had wished to escape from dying. He had come to the land of Perpetual Life with great relief and joy, only to find that the inhabitants themselves, doomed never to die, would consider it bliss to find death.