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Quotes About Relief

In a life where there is only the bearable and the unbearable, a sigh of relief is an ecstasy.
~ Lorrie Moore
Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have a good dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Darn! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—rotten.
~ Louis Sachar
were attempts by indebted farmers to lighten their debt load.
~ Ron Chernow
Several family members sought Rockefeller's help to withstand the storm.
~ Ron Chernow
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
~ Ronald Reagan
The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.
~ Ronald Reagan
Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief. ?
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Oh well. Better out than in
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
That Roman Peace was designed to last forever. When Diocletian perfected it, its economy was so thoroughly planned and so well administered that farmers could no longer farm nor workers work, and Government took care of them on the relief that taxes provided, until the increasing taxes pushed so many farmers and workers onto tax-supported relief that there was not enough productive energy left to pay the taxes, and the Roman empire with its world peace collapsed into the Dark Ages.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
You know how good-byes feel. How the air gets excited when all its ions and electrical charges are disrupted, first by the intent to leave and later by the leaving itself. Then, when the bodies move away through space, they create empty pockets where feelings get caught and eddy around in the vacuum, creating little vortices of relief or sadness or confusion.
~ Ruth Ozeki
A paradox for sure, but such a relief.
~ Ruth Ozeki
But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It was almost a relief to arrive in the middle of other people's crises and leave the crisis of America behind. At home he had stopped listening to the news and avoided social media to shut out the daily nonsense as much as he could. He had his book to write, and this private crisis to deal with, the crisis of Sister, and that was all he could handle right now. The apocalypse of the West would just have to wait in line.
~ Salman Rushdie
Eventually, it begins to seem as if you are repeatedly awakening from a dream to find yourself safely in bed. No matter how terrible the dream, the relief is instantaneous.
~ Sam Harris
I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?
~ Wendy Morgan
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
~ Dave Chappelle
Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.
~ Tim Dorsey
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
~ Wally Schirra
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.
~ Michael Jackson
Humor is a great way to relieve stress.
~ Christina Maslach
How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.
~ Sandra Lee