Quotes About Respite

in particular, all the work of it gave her a short respite

The Prayer for a Parking Space Oh, divine and merciful God, History is without equal for how much I will adore You, when You give me today, a place to park. For You are the provider. And You are the source. From You all good is delivered. Within You all is found. In Your care will I find respite. With Your guidance, will I find peace. To stop, to rest, to idle, to park. These are Yours to give me. This is what I ask. Amen.

Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness … The

I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.

What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

Please, she whispered as she opened the book, please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

A crisis pauses during tea.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Stop the planet. I want to get off.

Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early.

For me, nothing bad can happen on a football pitch. You could be growing up in chaos, everything could be going crazy around you, but if you have a ball at your feet, you stop thinking. Everything is quiet, peaceful.

What a beautiful respite a train journey is and a good book, too, and best of all the book on the train, in life and out of it at the same time, before we arrive at Termini and disembark and the book is put down and we must all part and go our separate ways, forever.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

I HEADED FOR the cottage, where I had left the car. By the time I got there I should have done three miles of foot-slogging and I proposed to give the leg muscles a bit of time off, and if E. Jimpson Murgatroyd didn't like it, let him eat cake.

A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the journey for a brief interlude - to eat, drink, sing, dance and tell our story to others.

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

She was in the mood then for some of the more boisterous native entertainment, so he walked her a couple of blocks up Bay Street to the Junkanoo, where it was noisy enough to make any but the most succinct and rudimentary forms of conversation impossible. It was a respite of sorts, if not

and she always came away with a sense of relief that she could leave. The place