Relief Quotes

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

Many people were grateful that President Johnson had not had hemorrhoid surgery.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

On my tombstone it will say, 'At last, a day off.'

My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

To me, if something makes you laugh, that's heart-warming. It doesn't necessarily have to be friendly; it might just be the weirdest thing ever. Laughing makes me feel better.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.