Drains Quotes - Page 12

• Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.

  Trent Shelton

  Drama, Stuff, Today

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• Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

  Emily Levine

  People, Care, Pay

  "Hey Dems, We Want Our Milk and Cookies" by Emily Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2006.

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• For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

  Allen Tate

  Waste, Intellect, Mansions

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

  Will Cuppy

  Tunnels, Land, Relax

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• So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

  Olivia Wilde

  Education, Kids, School

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• What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

  Elton John

  Artist, Blood, Careers

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sex, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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• In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Heart, Cutting, Tree

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Income, Debt

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

  Michael Hudson

  Writing, Shrinking, Debt

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can be highly competitive, which is ultimately why I chose yoga as a career. I thought it would drain the competitive drive out of me and allow me to be present and content. The yoga world has become highly competitive since then and it used to drive me crazy until I realized there's work for everyone.

  Kathryn Budig

  Crazy, Yoga, Careers

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• Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

  John Steinbeck

  Air, People, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.30, Penguin

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

  Craig Silvey

  Hard Work, Mean, Gun

  Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.208, Random House

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• Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Self, Connections

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.12, Head of Zeus

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• Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Common, Courtesy, Common Courtesy

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.77, Vintage Canada

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• 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 music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Retirement, Children

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• The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  People

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• It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Energy, Assumption

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• We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.

  Anna Paquin

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Source: collider.com

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• What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

  Sir John Davies

  Gambling, Sitting, Reign

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• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Errors, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

  William Cowper

  Sacrifice, Joy, Comfort

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.210

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