#relieve

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#appealed #buy #disparate #each #enough

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #freshly #obvious #relieved #sticky

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. ↗

— George Carlin

#delivering #eulogy #i #listening #realize

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#become #energy #laughter #might #negative

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#allowed #am #burdens #equivalent #fair

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

— Leon Kass

#almost #biotechnology #cure #disease #enthusiastic

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. ↗

— Judith Martin

#anonymous #despicable #does #etiquette #hiring

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest

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

— Robert South

#greatly #lighten #nothing #prove #relieve

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. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically