Drained Quotes

101 quotes by 94 authors

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally… — Frederick Lenz
Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has… — Donald Barthelme
I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now… — J. G. Ballard
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob… — John Keegan
America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun. — Gerald R. Ford
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. — Roald Dahl
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. — Hunter S. Thompson
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. — Ron Wyden
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else… — Marguerite Duras
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next… — Lewis Carroll
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness… — Amy Tan
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see… — Albert Camus
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up… — Cormac McCarthy
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling… — Larry McMurtry
And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out… — Anita Shreve
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of… — Galt Niederhoffer

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