When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
“And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right—the break had not come; and the break would never… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I’m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence. — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By eliminating the CFPB, and thereby easing the overarching financial restraints set in place by Dodd-Frank, we can limit the scope and… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria… — Petria Thomas Copy Share Image
I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please.… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
You tell me not to cut my skin, but when I do, I feel relief. you tell me not to end my… — Cassidy Saddoris Copy Share Image
Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“I feel the kind of relief that follows an actual solution. “I should wake you up more often, little duck.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
