Drained Quotes - Page 5

• Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Cities, Venice, Would Be

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• To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet

  Li Bai

  Wine, Night, Heaven

  Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”

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• (On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

  Lucretius

  Summer, Air, Hands

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• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained.

  Michael Dolan

  Wise, Energy, Use

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Outsiders

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

  Donald Barthelme

  Work, Men, Dollars

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

  Frederick Lenz

  Games, People, Dumb

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• People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Psychics, People

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• Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attention, Navel, Situation

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• When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.

  Debbie Ford

  World, Process, Force

  Debbie Ford (2009). “The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Dry, Soil, Common

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• By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Soccer, Mother, Children

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

  Anne Michaels

  Strong, Children, Past

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

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• In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

  Carol Tavris

  Sports, Children, Expression

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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Essence

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• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Flying

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• Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Introvert, Pleasure, Scene

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.139, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Fighting, Loss, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Running, Light, Blood

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

  William Styron

  Depression, Zero, Psychics

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, People, Host

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, Parenting, May

  Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

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• The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Men, Differences, Energy

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