Relieve Quotes

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.

Work from home will relieve the pressure on urban infrastructure and land, which can be released for mass housing or public transport, and critical lung space.

Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother’s eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can’t go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.

There’s a motherhood penalty because we’ve been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don’t want to talk about our kids at work. We’re afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we’re somehow going to be diminished.

What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.

I’m not an artist that vents through my music. I don’t do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

‘Ice Cream’ is such a sweet song, just like ice cream! Whenever I need to relieve some stress, or just want to feel better about something, I listen to it.

Walking is great because it’s an amazing exercise, and it also helps to clear your head and relieve any built-up stress before the work day begins.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I really try to have fun. If I don’t have fun, you won’t have fun. That’s what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another’s dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.

Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been entrusted to him to buy food in Europe to relieve the starvation in Leningrad that occurred during the economic collapse following the fall of the Soviet Union.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same – it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.

I’ve seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people’s suffering.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Fortunately, I don’t get that stressed. So I don’t really need to relieve it.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

There’s always very high tension with dance auditions! You’re in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you’ll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

It’s vital that someone with a mental health issue is given the chance to open up to someone and discuss how they’re feeling, to help relieve the pressure they may be keeping to themselves.

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.

Players are human and when they get the opportunity to relieve the pressure, some deal with it in different ways.

Life is always a problem. The fact that I’m on the radio saying that I don’t necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

I love to work out. It’s one of the ways I love to relieve stress.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.