Drains Quotes - Page 13

• The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Knowing, Balance

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Giving, Bliss, Pleasure

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• Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Energy, Disease

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.18, New World Library

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• Activity without purpose is the drain of your life

  Tony Robbins

  Purpose, Activity

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• Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

  Pauly Shore

  Fun, Hate, People

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• One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Hands, Law, Want

  The Question of Max ch. 5 (1976).

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• It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Spring, Rivers, Gold

  Writing about Manchester in 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 2 July

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• Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

  Raymond Chandler

  Perfect, Mind, Television

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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 the fame.

  Brad Paisley

  Art, Fall, Media

  Song: Celebrity Brad Paisley, Album: Mud On The Tires, 2003

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• I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Country, Educational, Long

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• I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Girl, New York, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

  Sean Parker

  Talent, Results, Stage

  "Sean Parker: 'Little Startups Are Ridiculously Over-Funded'". techcrunch.com. November 15, 2011.

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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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• Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

  Arianna Huffington

  Procrastination, Energy, Projects

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• I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

  Alan Pardew

  Team, People, Potters

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• If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, People, Volunteer

  Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

  Melvin Burgess

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

  Eddie Cantor

  Spring, Love Is, Stronger

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• Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Russia, Brain

  Remarks to Students at St. Petersburg University, Russia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2002.

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