Quotes About Relief

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

Ruthan Gudd drew off his gambeson and paused to luxuriate in the sudden escape from unbearable heat as his sweat-slicked skin cooled. 'Well,' said Skanarow from her cot, 'that woke me up.' 'My godlike physique?' 'The smell, Ruthan.

The panic that had filled him was subsiding, perhaps having burned itself out.

A terrible burden seemed to drain from him.

Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours.

You are a veteran, I see. You might think that fact yields some relief on my part. It does not. I do not care where you have been, who you served under, or how many officers you knifed in the back. All I care about is how much you know about fighting.' 'Never knifed a single officer, sir…in the back. And I don't know a damned thing about fighting, except surviving it.

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

being in love is to be relieved of gravity.

A great burden had been lifted from my soul. I had divested its weight onto the child Rayojini, and I knew she would not feel it there. It could not harm her. Not yet. Not for a long time.

Above Verity and Daniel, in the lounge of Low Mede, Peveral Othman watched Barbara and Louis make love on the rug before the log-effect gas fire. He took some satisfaction from their relief, from Louis' almost tearful gratitude for the body he now inhabited. Othman felt he should go and visit the Winters, although for some reason, he felt compelled to stay at Low Mede. He knew he would feel vulnerable beyond the walls. He was not strong enough at the moment to control Lily and Owen.

For a moment or two I was afraid that some invisible net was closing in, tightening around me, and yet, on another level, I was relieved not to be alone.

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.

In the meantime, I would work in the relief office and I began interviewing people . . . and found out how everybody, in order to be eligible for relief, had to have reached absolute bottom. You didn't have to have a lot of brains to realize that once they reached that stage and you put them on an allowance of a dollar a day for food—how could they ever pull out of it?

Like many beekeepers, I have discovered a dose of bee venom from a sting alleviates the symptoms of arthritis,

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.

It was time to free him from my burdens.

There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.

I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief.

Let us not underestimate the ingenuity of the poor people in converting what they get from the relief worker to what they want. And that's just wasteful. They would be far better off if we just gave them the money and let them spend it.