Famous quotes containing the word relieved:
“To tell you the truth, Im relieved that the Van Ripers are not coming. Hes telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago and she dyes her hair. I think its a shrimp pink now.”
—Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael OBrien (Charles Winninger)
“Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of patronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Werent you relieved to find he wasnt dead?
No! and yet I dont know its hard to say.
I went about to kill him fair enough.
You took an awkward way. Did he discharge you?
Discharge me? No! He knew I did just right.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)