Drain Quotes
240 quotes by 202 authors
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Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain…
— Frederick Lenz
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Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's…
— Christopher Hitchens
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But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.
— Bob Dylan
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a…
— Joyce Cary
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It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a…
— Daniel Ek
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The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?"…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on…
— Brad Paisley
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I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very,…
— Roger Daltrey
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Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a…
— John Dramani Mahama
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I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious…
— Johnny Otis
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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not…
— Frederick Lenz
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It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into…
— Eric Hoffer
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I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of…
— Truman Capote
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The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
— Homer
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Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
— Paul Dickson
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Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it…
— Edgar Guest
Who Wrote These Drain Quotes
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