Quotes About Relief

I don't think I've got a thick skin, but I've not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved.

I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of desire is longing. It's in the work. Desider-, sidus: from the stars. The longing that reaches beyond space and time.

again. After the relief came unalloyed delight. The news would please everybody.

Continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.' The words are not those of a conservative, but of Franklin Roosevelt.

Before, I'd see a pile of papers and wouldn't know what the hell was in them and just be like, Oh, my God," Carey says. "The day I got to zero, which is GTD talk for having nothing in your in-box—no phone messages, no e-mails, nothing, not a piece of paper—when I got to that point, I felt like the world got lifted off my shoulders. I felt like I had just come out of meditating in the desert, not a care in the world. I just felt euphoric.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Well say something, dammit, I'm choking on pretzels!

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

The relief in speaking is that it translates me into the universal.

Relief from something that you cannot hold within you is always the greatest pleasure, isn't it? Whatever that thing may be!

Death is relief from reaction to the senses, from the puppet strings of impulse, from the analytical mind, and from service to the flesh.

Seamen could expect little relief from the law, whose purpose in the eighteenth-century Atlantic was, according to Jesse Lemisch, "to assure a ready supply of cheap, docile labor.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

You have made your escape, your known addresses crumple in the wind, the city unfreezes with relief traffic shifts back to its routines, the swollen buildings return to normal, I walk believably from house to store, nothing remembers you but the bruises on my thighs and the inside of my skull.

Pero cuando los espíritus están agobiados, huyen todos los apetitos.

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say. 'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.