Relief Quotes

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. (George Eliot)

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

Washington Irving

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

William Blake

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

Edmund Burke

All those who try to go it sole alone Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Robert Frost

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Norman Mailer

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. (William S. Burroughs)

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Eric Clapton

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

Isaac Watts

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

Mark Twain

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Winston Churchill

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Leon Panetta

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Fiona Shaw

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

Rick Larsen

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

Rick Larsen

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Robert Dale Owen

It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it the finger of that Almighty Hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the Revolution. (James Madison)

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

Vladimir Lenin

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

J. G. Ballard

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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