Draining Quotes - Page 2

• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Creative, Balance

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.24, Algonquin Books

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• Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

  Peter Charles Newman

  Life, Short Life, Exhausting

  Peter Charles Newman (1975). “The Canadian Establishment”

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• Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin

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• If you have a sense that anyone is draining your energy, mentally cut the etheric psychic cord between you and the other person. Be willing to forgive that other person for seemingly draining you, and release the other person fully to the light, now. Completely let go of focusing on personalities of other people and ourselves, and focus, instead, on the true oneness of your spirit.

  Doreen Virtue

  Letting Go, Cutting, Light

  Doreen Virtue (2004). “Chakra Clearing”, p.35, Hay House, Inc

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• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Hands, Bones

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Flames, Safety, Effort

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• They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Together, Skins, Faults

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• The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Light, Rivers, Space

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• In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

  Jenny Lawson

  Xanax, Normal, Energy

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.

  Sylvia Day

  Rocks, Together, Safe

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.372, Penguin

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• A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

  Joe Queenan

  Real, Reading, Blood

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• The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Shadow, Hue

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

  Rob Sheffield

  Grief, Winter, Night

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• He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Bed, Lasts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.732, Delphi Classics

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• Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Vision, Acting, Six Months

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• It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

  Katy Perry

  Party, Elbows, Bigs

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• It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

  Sean Penn

  Drama, Emotional, Roles

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• Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hate, Guy, Trying

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

  Michael Hutchence

  Ego, Honest, Terrified

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

  Jane D. Hull

  Lakes, Ideas, Ridiculous

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• How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Energy, Doe

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• You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, World

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