Being Depleted Quotes

#1. The body is in constant danger of being depleted by a greedy brain, but cannot afford to let the brain go hungry as that would rapidly lead to death.

Bill Bryson

#2. Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Maude Barlow

#3. Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality.

Dion Fortune

#4. Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time to use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates.

Arundhati Roy

#5. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

Howard Fast

#6. The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

Sherry Argov

#7. Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Sarah Bernhardt

#8. I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

Nicholas Winton

#9. As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.

Anita Shreve

#10. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Doc Brown

#11. As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother ... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

Niecy Nash

#12. I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

Claudia Schiffer

#13. As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.

Gregory Maguire

#14. I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

Carole Seymour-Jones

#15. I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

Ben Stiller

#16. More skill, more success;
less skill, less success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Pat Conroy

#18. Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

Denis Waitley

#19. Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Lorne Michaels

#20. All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

Conrad Black

#21. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

Ismail Serageldin