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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa's future.
It is inappropriate to portray the central contribution to the Disaster Relief Fund as help for COVID-19 prevention.
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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?
I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.
Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.
Being able to go home to my kid is such a relief because he's such a happy kid. He balances my life out in such a good way.
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.
When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.
I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was over after just 45 minutes.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief, but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences.
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.