Drains Quotes - Page 7

• Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

  Daphne Oz

  Moving, Inspiration, Blood

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

  Anthea Turner

  School, Divorce, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

  Henry Giroux

  Narrative, Youth, Trouble

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

  Donald Trump

  Government, People, Swamps

  "Trump's First Hundred Days?". A transcript of the weekend's program on FOX News Channel, www.wsj.com. October 23, 2016.

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• [Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.

  Melanie Martinez

  Stress, Like Love, Proud

  Source: graffitibeach.wordpress.com

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• We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Swamps, Great Wall

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Spirit, Sin

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• Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Accountability, Swamps

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When the signal is weak, the phone is working more, you drain the battery faster, so only use a phone when the signal is weak in a true emergency.

  Devra Davis

  Phones, Batteries, Use

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.

  Albert J. Nock

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, America

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• Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.

  Sean Hannity

  Wall, Issues, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ideas, Yesterday, Mind

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

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• I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

  Johnny Otis

  America, Would Be, Culture

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• He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cute, Cat, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.62, Penguin

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• I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Cat, Reptiles

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Pain, Men

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

  Maureen Johnson

  Attitude, Self, Long

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.22, Penguin

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Balance, Usual

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, Suffering

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• My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

  Arthur Golden

  Feelings, Tears, Tables

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• Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Snakes, Swamps

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• Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

  Sam Walton

  Littles, Sells, Bits

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• Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

  Brennan Manning

  Contact, Offers

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• Each must drain
  His share of pleasure, share of pain.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Pleasure, Share

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.88

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