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Letter "R" » relieve
«I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
distress, relieve, relieving
«Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.»
Author: Jack Nicholson
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Smile
| Keywords:
go go, go with, plastic, plastic surgeon, relieve
«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.»
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
relieve, struggling
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
philosopher, relieve, struggling
«Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
leap, leap out, quotations, relieve, robbers
«I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.»
«RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.»
«It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| Keywords:
bring home, close, close to, cup, easier, Easy to Love, far and away, For each, hunger, hungered, hungering, hungers, loneliness, loving cup, our own, relieve, relieving, rice, unloved
«I would wish my countrymen to adopt just so much of European politeness as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self, which really render Europeans amiable, and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjec»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
amiable, countrymen, European, politeness, relieve, rudeness, scenes
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