Drain Quotes

240 quotes by 202 authors

I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio… — Ted Strickland
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. — Brennan Manning
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them. — Brennan Manning
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near… — Howard Ruff
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. — Wes Borland
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I… — William J. Clinton
Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap. — Rita Mae Brown
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the… — Tom Rachman
An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to… — Judith Orloff
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon.… — N.D. Wilson
I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of… — Jean Hegland
We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything… — Thomas Merton
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed… — John Turner
God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space… — Charles Spurgeon
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will… — William Archibald Spooner
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this… — Peter Kreeft
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good… — Georgia O'Keeffe
If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain? — Charles Spurgeon

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202 authors contributed a total of 240 Drain Quotes, led by these top contributors: