Quotes about respite (16 Quotes)


    Sure, lower rates might offer another brief respite in an environment that has seen increasing dollops of profit-warnings and negative economic news recently, but when that is all said and done, a poor operating environment is unlikely to be a boon for corporate profits -- or U. S. shares prices -- in the months ahead, ... The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle.

    Ironically, these rains bring little respite. While they have alleviated the immediate need for water, there is increased risk of people falling sick from drinking contaminated water, while livestock deaths have continued because the animals are too weak and vulnerable to diseases such as pneumonia when temperatures drop at night.


    I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

    Once I start painting, once I start acting and working, it's not a holiday. It's not a respite, but it is, in a sense, a balance, but it's of equal weight. It's a balance it does balance out.


    The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.


    The worst effects of the transition lie ahead. Although we expect a brief respite from double-digit sales declines in April, when Microsoft is likely to double the supply of Xbox 360 hardware units, we expect a return to software sales declines over the next several months.


    Have they feet with which they walk, or have they hands with which they hold, or have they eyes with which they see, or have they ears with which they hear Say Call your associates, then make a struggle (to prevail) against me and give me no respite.

    Their apostles said Is there doubt about Allah, the Maker of the heavens and the earth He invites you to forgive you your faults and to respite you till an appointed term. They said You are nothing but mortals like us you wish to turn us away from what our fathers used to worship bring us therefore some clear authority.


    When people travel, they seek out the familiar as respite against all the new. And there's nothing more familiar in this country than a shopping mall, ... In any state, the most visited place is a mall.


    And warn people of the day when the chastisement shall come to them, then those who were unjust will say O our Lord respite us to a near term, (so) we shall respond to Thy call and follow the apostles. What did you not swear before (that) there will be no passing away for you And you dwell in the abodes of those who were unjust to themselves, and it is clear to you how We dealt with them and We have made (them) examples to you.

    RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.



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