Top 100 Drain Quotes

#1. so long. I'm just so tired of this game. I know I got the luxuries but sometimes I'd rather just have my man. Sometimes the game can drain you.

K. Elliott

#2. Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

#3. It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.

Frederick Lenz

#4. In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#5. Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

A.P. Herbert

#6. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Bob Dylan

#7. It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ...

Allen Tate

#9. There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

Alex Turner

#10. Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Charles M. Blow

#11. You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.

Larry Flynt

#12. After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.

Amy Robach

#13. I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Jim Drain

#14. My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

Joaquin Phoenix

#15. I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. 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

#17. It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

#18. A terrible burden seemed to drain from him.

Steven Erikson

#19. Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources.

Stephen King

#20. The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

Daniel Handler

#21. Once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.

James Patterson

#22. God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

Charles Spurgeon

#23. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

Flannery O'Connor

#24. You should be just as respectful to authority figures and public servants, even if you can now drain them dry. Because your kids are watching you. Also, because it's still illegal to drain authority figures and public servants dry.

Molly Harper

#25. For the first time since hearing about the Treaty of Versailles in detail, Mondaugen found himself crying. They'll drain his juices, he thought; caress his bones with their paw-pads, gag on his fine white hair.

Anonymous

#26. Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Paul Dickson

#27. There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

John Turner

#29. Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

John Dramani Mahama

#30. Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#31. The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.

Frederick Lenz

#32. I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

Roger Daltrey

#33. The Retirement Savings Drain: The Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s,

Anthony Robbins

#34. 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

#35. It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Marat Safin

#36. People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.

Edgar Watson Howe

#37. Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.

Aaron Cometbus

#38. I'm definitely an introvert, because people drain me. And now I need silence to refuel.

Colleen Hoover

#39. The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Wim Wenders

#40. Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Frederick Lenz

#41. we've been cut off for too long, and want to know we're not just an eddy of humanity, going down a drain without affecting anybody or anything. God doesn't call us to be eddies of living water, after all.

Kathryn Judson

#42. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Olivia Wilde

#43. Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people, passers-by, will laugh at him, but when the boy's father sees his boy in that condition, what is he to do? Will he laugh at his own son? No! What will he do?

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

#44. Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

Terry Goodkind

#45. And then, even if I pulled all that off, if I took something that big out of my dream, it would drain the ley line, possible making Cabeswater disappear again, this time with us in it, sending us all to some never-never land of time-space fuckery that we might never escape from.

Maggie Stiefvater

#46. Drain and dry pickles.

Mike CincyShopper

#47. An hour ago, I would have sworn that a man's body wouldn't fit in a standard trash bag, and that even if it did, it'd be too heavy to lift."
"Pieces always fit better than the whole," he said. "And a corpse weighs less after you drain the blood."
"Spoken like a true psychopath.

Rachel Vincent

#48. We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

David Attenborough

#49. I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

Reif Larsen

#50. There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

Jodi Picoult

#51. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#52. Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#53. My love," he said, his voice intent, "you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.

Patricia Briggs

#54. Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

Kelley Armstrong

#55. After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.

Gretchen Rubin

#56. One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis.

Bobb Biehl

#57. 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

#58. Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing

Armistead Maupin

#59. The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#60. True love doesn't grow on you, feed on you, drain you and spoil your heart. It nourishes, waters the soul and intensifies in absenses long and short.

C. Nzingha Smith

#61. I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#62. People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

Frederick Lenz

#63. When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Christian Louboutin

#64. Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

Cornelius Plantinga

#65. What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

Elton John

#66. I do look at fashion, and I love going to Opening Ceremony and seeing what they have. Seeing what Jeremy Scott is doing. And this designer Bernhard Wilhelm. Proenza Schouler.

Jim Drain

#67. I didn't know what to do. I'm in love with this woman, I'm married to this other woman, and I'm in trouble, so I call my two friends. That's all I need, two. I need the main guy and the guy I go to when I drain the main guy.

Marc Maron

#68. 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

#69. Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Julia Cameron

#70. Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

Michael Hudson

#71. I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange.

Penny Reid

#72. It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain,but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.-RVM

R.v.m.

#73. A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.

Jim Drain

#74. Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

E.B. White

#75. We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Robert Burns

#76. Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

S.A. Tawks

#77. Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day.

Heinrich Heine

#78. Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Switchfoot

#79. 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

#80. The inability to hold cash and the pressure to be fully invested at all times meant that when the plug was pulled out of the tub, all boats dropped as the water rushed down the drain.

Seth Klarman

#81. After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

Dilip Shanghvi

#82. See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Karen Marie Moning

#83. The silent horror of Archie's ordeal had been temporarily replaced by the howling, agonising pain of the blood refusing to drain from his penis, the end of which was a deep purple verging on black where Officer Griff had tested how hard it was by using the back of his hand to give it a solid twang.

Dylan Perry

#84. Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be. "Good enough" becomes days today's watchword and tomorrow standard.

Alex And Brett Harris

#85. No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#86. Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

Riki Lindhome

#87. It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on "repeat," these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded.

Rob Bell

#88. Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.

Jonathan Lethem

#89. I don't mind being around those who need help and want to be helped, but I don't like to be around those who are unhappy and negative all of time,because they drain you down.

Beta Metani'Marashi

#90. Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can't afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

Emily Levine

#91. I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that cloaked itself in pretended kindness, and its allegiance to a god who would drain the joy from the world by naming it sin,

Bernard Cornwell

#92. The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Betty Davis

#93. Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

Hyrum W. Smith

#94. Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy.

Cobi Jones

#95. Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

Scott Bradfield

#96. Don't try to shut out the feelings. You won't be able to. Just let them wash over you and drain out again.

Rick Riordan

#97. You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished. -Bones

Jeaniene Frost

#98. Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale may be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.

Philippe Grandjean

#99. Have you ever had a large spider in the tub, figuring you'll wash it down the drain you turn on the shower, and set it to hot?
Only to have the stupid thing grab onto the edge of the drain and hiss at you!!

Neil Leckman

#100. You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

Frederick Lenz

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