Drain Quotes

240 quotes by 196 authors

We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… — David Attenborough
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than… — David Cameron
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. — Margaret Cho
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and… — Gene Roddenberry
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — John Henry Jowett
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. — Robert H. Schuller
Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy… — Rajneesh
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them… — Carlos Castaneda
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in… — Ray Allen
Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a… — Mother Teresa
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. — John Belushi
How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on… — John Templeton
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain' — Unknown Author
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win,… — Randall Cunningham

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