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Quotes About Relieved

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.
~ Emil M. Cioran
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.
~ E. J. Hughes
I am always relaxed.
~ Sam Shepard
I am permanently relaxed.
~ Daniel Barenboim
she would abuse me, then the very next day hug me or tell me how I was her baby and she loved me blah, blah. I think it worked like any abusive relationship . . . a person feels trapped, nowhere to go . . . they are abused and then the abuser reins them back in with kindness and the person being abused settles, not quite thinking about the next time they are beat etc. just relieved the abuse is over (for now). My mother was a ticking time bomb . . .
~ Gregg Olsen
I think it worked like any abusive relationship . . . a person feels trapped, nowhere to go . . . they are abused and then the abuser reins them back in with kindness and the person being abused settles, not quite thinking about the next time they are beat etc. just relieved the abuse is over (for now).
~ Gregg Olsen
there was something wistful about her, under the burnish of her makeup she looked extremely young, and a little afraid. I wanted to speak to her, as if I were a guardian spirit working the airport—God knows I was crazed with my fresh solitariness— so I did a little double take, when I passed her, and said, Could I ask, where did you get your sandals—my husband, I lied, wants me to get some, and she said a name, as if relieved to speak.
~ Sharon Olds
We waved our programs triumphantly at the usher who'd been so snappy to us earlier. He smiled back, relieved that the pressure of the funeral was over.
~ Mary Robertson
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
~ Dustin Hoffman
I am mightily relieved that my holiday does not come after a long queue with the National Holiday Service, complete with bedroom-sharing like the NHS.
~ John Redwood
I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.
~ Bryan Burrough
I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'
~ Gillian Jacobs
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
~ Valerie Plame
I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.
~ Ed O'Neill
should be relieved, but I'm pissed. The irony is that he's probably still going to dominate my life.
~ Sue Grafton
She turned her head slightly, relieved that she could do so, and found Dragon not asleep or at least drowsily replete, as he should have been—oh no, not he—but wide awake, propped up on an elbow, and looking at her with what appeared suspiciously to be amusement. "I don't think you are human," she said sulkily. He grinned. "I felt like a god a few moments ago, but that's to your credit, not mine.
~ Josie Litton
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
~ Georgette Heyer
You want to know something? Honestly, I was relieved. What a coward, huh? I don't think so. Oh, yes. I am. A big coward. That's why I just keep daring myself to do things I'm afraid of doing. He had a notion. Such things like? Like bringing you up here to my room.
~ Michael Chabon
It was just an old clock, your honor," he told Smith, looking at once relieved and disappointed. "In the desk of a Mister Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Clay. Taped to a couple of dowels painted red." "I knew it," said Joe softly, starting in on the second little box. "Dynamite isn't even red," the old fireman said, walking off. "Not really." "The guy reads too much comic books," Joe said.
~ Michael Chabon
The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
~ Glenn Frey
Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read. Sure, Sammy said, I never said I had anything against reading books... The publishers will be relieved to know that, I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.
~ Budd Schulberg
His mouth said: Would you like to have dinner tonight? For just the skin of a second, Miss Dearheart was surprised, but not half as surprised as Moist. Then her natural cynicism reinflated. I like to have dinner every night. With you? No. I have things to do. Thank you for asking. No problem, said Moist, slightly relieved.
~ Terry Pratchett
Where is the bane of my existence? In the shower, freshening up. Damn it all to hell. Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now? No, no, he's covered in blood. Oh good. Wait a minute. The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us.
~ Ilona Andrews
As if the elements themselves were relieved the ceremony was over, the sun had begun to shine wanly through a gap in the clouds.
~ Storm Constantine