Relief Quotes

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

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

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.

When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

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

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.