I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.
When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.
It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.