Relieves Quotes

We used to joke about it: `Give me an affliction and I`ll give you an Oscar!` They`re not giving an award for acting. It`s, `Thanks for making me feel something. Here`s a prize.` Somehow people don`t put comedy in their emotional bank the same way. It relieves a tension, it unties a knot, but it`s not something where people want to give you a prize. They just want to say, `Thanks for making me laugh,` which I genuinely treasure. That makes me feel good.

I think it`s an excellent deal for the city of North Adams, ... It relieves the city of taxes, allows us to boost up our reserves, which have been beaten up over recent years, and allows us to retain our water rights. I`m very confident that the watershed, being in the hands of the Forest Service, will be protected indefinitely.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

As far as day-to-day life, he`s a very happy baby. He`s not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he`s not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.