Top 1200 Relief Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.

In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

It hurts to see that everything on television is based on pillaring people. Nobody's sort of given the opportunity to be nice anymore. I think that is somewhat reflective of tragically the society that we live in today where we want to know people off their pedestal or we want to hurt, we want to harm instead of boosting and following by example. It's always about the crud of society, the black sheep of society that producers seem to think the public wants rather than my old theory of the cream rising to the top.

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.

All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.

I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats them as less than other citizens, less than whites in the society. And I think that pointing out that there are structures of discrimination in the society, deeply rooted racist structures, that segregate housing, that send black children to ill-equipped schools, that discriminate in the workplace - these are truths about our society that must be faced.

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.

This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex.

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

I enjoyed shooting 'Chandramukhi' so much that I would not say it was a relief when the shooting got over.

There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Doing comic roles is a great relief considering the power-packed roles that are usually offered to me.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

Why would you invest in a company which is out of synch with the needs of society, that does not take its social compliance in its supply chain seriously, that does not think about the costs of externalities or of its negative impacts on society?

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

Communities have changed. Our society is changing. Sometimes I feel like our law enforcement, the public services, they don't have enough resources to keep up with the changes that we see in our society.

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.