#relief

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#comedian #deny #denying #hilarious #i

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. ↗

— Keith Miller

#any #became #because #could #did

In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#also #been #created #deficit #double-digit

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief. ↗

— David Plouffe

#been #controversial #country #disaster #disasters

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. ↗

— Colin Powell

#efforts #greatest #international #relief #states

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#delight #fashion #heaven #nobody #our

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

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

— Whitey Herzog

#kinds #left #need #pitching #relief