Drained Quotes

• When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

  Eileen Caddy

  Motivational, Positive, Recovery

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• I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Silly, Years, Play

  "Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. November 10, 2005.

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Loss

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Eye, Loss, Color

  "You Must Remember This". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

  Ron Wyden

  House, Swamps, Months

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• Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Keys, Land

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• We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

  Deval Patrick

  Giving Up, Games, People

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• The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Baby, Self, Needs

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• Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

  David McCallum

  Creative, Energy, Conformity

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  London, Empires, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Two, People

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• Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Men, Estate Agents, Spectacles

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.159, Bantam

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• Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

  Regina King

  Men, Estate Agents, Spectacles

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• Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Mad, Agents, Estates

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• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

  Pete Sampras

  Couple, Mistake, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Couple, Mistake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Food, Dark, Cooking

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bored, Energy, Attention

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• You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sick, Auras, Hours

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• When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

  Jane Porter

  Sensual, Cups, Poison

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.110

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• You are drained by foolish actions and others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Losing, Action, Foolish

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• Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

  Neil Postman

  Laughter, Sea, Voice

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• Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

  Robert Byron

  Adventure, December, Stomach

  1937 The Road to Oxiana.

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• Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn't honoring your feelings, it's not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that's a red flag!

  Doreen Virtue

  Real, Red Flags, Feelings

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