Drain Quotes
240 quotes by 202 authors
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile,…
— Carrie Newcomer
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It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
— Ronald Reagan
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People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.
— Hans Froði Hansen
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... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
— Sylvia Plath
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Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not…
— David McCallum
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It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that…
— Jack Lemmon
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The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
— James Doohan
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
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Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such…
— Margaret Sanger
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We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I…
— Wangari Maathai
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Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled…
— Orson Scott Card
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Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships…
— Robin Sharma
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Be a fountain, not a drain.
— Rex Hudler
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When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the…
— Erma Bombeck
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It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender,…
— Molly O'Neill
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We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem…
— Tony Abbott
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There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.
— Alex Turner
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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A…
— Donald E. Westlake
Who Wrote These Drain Quotes
202 authors contributed a total of 240 Drain Quotes, led by these top contributors: