Drains Quotes - Page 14

• Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

  Audre Lorde

  Women, Responsibility, Gay

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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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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• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

  Peter Kreeft

  Animal, Civilization, Dying

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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• By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Coffee, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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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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• The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Fighting, Want, Pumps

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

  Caroline Myss

  Fuel, Body, Spirit

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2013

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• 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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• 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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