Drains Quotes - Page 2

• If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

  Paul Weyrich

  Dollars, Want, Problem

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• Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

  Mickey Rourke

  Makeup, Lunch, Done

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Criticism, Age

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Thinking, Ideas, Yesterday

  "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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• Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Technology, Sea

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• Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Ghana, Brain, Quota

  "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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• Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

  Sylvia Earle

  Golf, Agriculture, United States

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• The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

  Li Bai

  Garden, Clouds, Sky

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• But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.

  David Berg

  Sea, Land, Gone

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• God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Light, Sea

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Integrity, Self, Hypocrisy

  Robert E. Quinn (2004). “Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.

  Ray Allen

  Letting Go, Character, Emotional

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• Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Moving, Angel

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• 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 is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Hope, Procrastination

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2017

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• 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, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

  Molly O'Neill

  Morning, Uncles, Drinking

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• I got enemies, I got a lotta enemies. Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy.

  Drake

  People, Enemy, Energy

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• Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Opportunity, Energy

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• Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Positive, Christian

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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