Unrelieved Quotes

#1. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#2. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Raymond Carver

#4. But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

Georgette Heyer

#5. It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

Gertrude Atherton

#6. That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God and find him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. I'm not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn't have a reason. When suffering is unrelenting and unrelieved by love.

Lisa Tucker

#8. Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

Mel Brooks

#9. Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Benjamin Cardozo

#10. The chief characteristics of my childhood were an aching loneliness and the daily struggle to avoid a bleakness of spirit that unrelieved loneliness can foment.

Dean Koontz

#11. Unrelieved black set off her pale skin and exquisite bone structure. Her

A.C. Crispin

#12. He's losing weight," I say. "He doesn't sleep anymore." It occurs to me that this is how cults weaken the will of initiates.
Robert says, "It sounds to me like he's in love," and adds that the world's most coveted state is characterized by unrelieved insecurity and almost constant pain.

Melissa Bank

#13. The dark was oppressive, unrelieved by any neighbouring buildings or sodium light. It felt primeval,

Jojo Moyes

#14. For few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

Herman Melville

#15. Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

Rumi

#16. Crush! Kill! And above all - cackle!

Eliza Crewe

#17. The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.

Beverly Engel

#18. I'll fucking kill Hugh Grant.

Caroline Kepnes

#19. My rage was the only thing keeping me awake, I was feeding off it in that righteous way you can if you never mention out loud the wrong you are being done.

Zadie Smith

#20. I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

Kim Kardashian

#21. For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

Sam Shepard

#22. I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.

Julio Alexi Genao

#23. Some truths hit harder than others.

Thomas H. Cook

#24. If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

Jennifer Egan

#25. In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected.

Michael McCaul

#26. hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Chris Bradford

#27. It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#28. Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was no longer surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving home from finishing school in an airdinghy.

Gail Carriger

#29. Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Ram Dass