The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in… — Dick Sargent Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe it was happening. But it was. Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
We have a real economic growth problem in America. We are limping along. Wages are flat. And jobs aren’t being created near… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of… — Cy Young Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Doing something for someone because she wanted to do it instead of because she had to do it would be a welcome… — Erin Nicholas Copy Share Image
I enjoyed shooting 'Chandramukhi' so much that I would not say it was a relief when the shooting got over. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the… — Barry Bonds Copy Share Image
The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“You know, I'm going to make it a point whenever I see you to be like the ocean. You can look to… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like… — Francis Aveling Copy Share Image
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness.… — Tony Meloto Copy Share Image
Amid all the horror films releasing in Tamil Nadu, 'Uyire Uyire,' with its focus on romance, will be a relief. — Jaya Prada Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image