Quotes About Relief

Relief pitchers have only recently begun receiving proper recognition. When Whitey Ford rose at the New York Baseball Writers banquet to receive the Cy Young Award for the 1961 season, he said he had a nine-minute speech but would deliver only seven minutes of it. He would let Luis Arroyo, who had saved so many of Ford's wins, do the final two minutes.

The Khanum?" Arland coughed. The last sip of tea must've gone wrong. "Are you unwell?" Dagorkun inquired. "Healthy as a krahr," Arland said. "That's such a relief. I would hate for some illness to interfere and spoil the grand celebration I planned when I send you to your afterlife.

If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.

I think Otto will be rather relieved to be certain that you know. He doesn't enjoy deception. I choose the words carefully. He hasn't the least objection to deception. He just doesn't like the process of being found out. It's bad for his nerves

I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.

Beveridgefn20 is a good thing though – that's all right, so long as people don't start relaxing with a sigh of relief. (I've just been reading Bev. – a fine piece of work – thorough and equitable – and it will be a good fight, trying to get it put into operation – doomed to failure I surmise, but instructive.)

Despite the grief, there was no disguising the sense of relief in the air.

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.

although they knew this was a mere formality. Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close.

Llorando de tristeza por todo lo perdido y riendo de alivio por todo lo ganado.

Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close. The Ofelia del Solar circle closed neatly for him in that Athenaeum café, without leaving any ashes.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes up most of a zookeeper's day.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Performance releases pressure.

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

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.