Sigh Of Relief Quotes:

I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

- Len Morgan

topic: Sigh Of Relief, Wings, Weather, Hot Days

Ed Koch will never "rest in peace." That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say "it's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax."

- Alan Dershowitz

source: "Ed Koch: The Death of a Liberal Israel Lover" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

topic: Rest In Peace, Sigh Of Relief, Goal, Assertive

But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.21, Canongate Books

topic: Home, Sigh Of Relief, Height, Bounce, Latitude

I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.

- Barry Manilow

source: "Oh Mandy! Barry Manilow is back, baby". The Associated Press, www.today.com. February 23, 2006.

topic: Song, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief, Orchestration, Acrobatics

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

- James M. Barrie

source: James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.42, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Hands, Sigh Of Relief, Promise

Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Difficult Life, Top 100

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

- Rudolf Bing

topic: Night, Two, Miracle, Sigh Of Relief

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

- Alexander Schmemann

topic: Home, Kissing, Simple, Sigh Of Relief, Bare Branches

the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

- Mabel Osgood Wright

topic: Summer, Nature, Garden, Pastures, Sigh Of Relief

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: War, Believe, Thinking, Maniacs, Maybe One Day

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

- Jake Gyllenhaal

topic: Relief, Looks, World, Sigh Of Relief, Sci Fi Movie

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Heart, Dark, Cliffs, Sigh Of Relief

I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Falling In Love, Promise, Relief, Sigh Of Relief

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

- James Lovelock

topic: Crazy, War, Humanity, Sigh Of Relief, Nuclear War

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Relief, Three, Uptight, Sigh Of Relief

Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didn’t need my brother anymore, but I don’t think such a point actually exists.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Running, Brother, Thinking, Caleb, Sigh Of Relief