Relief Quotes - page 3

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines. (Elizabeth Hardwick)
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's. View quote
John Selden
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. View quote
Henry van Dyke
An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then-hoisting onto its back a new world-figure-feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own. (Randall Jarrell)
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. View quote
Ally Condie
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax. View quote
Larry King
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. View quote
Lev Grossman
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. View quote
Lev Grossman
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness. View quote
Ann Brashares
To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal. View quote
Violette Leduc
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms. (Mike Pence)
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
I provide a little comic relief. View quote
Anthony Anderson
It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy. View quote
Bob Graham
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief. View quote
Bob Graham