Drain Quotes

240 Drain quotes by 196 unique authors

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
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
The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. — James Doohan
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. — Charles M. Blow
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
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
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
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
Be a fountain, not a drain. — Rex Hudler
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
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
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
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
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. — Alex Turner
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
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

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