Relieve Quotes

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

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

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.

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.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

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.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.

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

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

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.

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.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

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.

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.

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

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

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.

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.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

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

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.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

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

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.