Top 100 Quotes About Drains: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Drains

#1. I give him a skeptical look. "You want to show me your dick?"
"If it'll help convince you." He drains the last drops of his Scotch and stands up. "Come on, let's go.

Kendall Ryan

#2. He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Anneli Rufus

#4. Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

Derek Sivers

#6. We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

William Cowper

#7. Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Cobi Jones

#8. It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

Robert E. Quinn

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

Aniruddha Sastikar

#10. Rest when you're tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn't something you have - it's something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.

Melody Beattie

#11. What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

Sir John Davies

#12. Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

C.S. Lewis

#13. By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.

Doc Childre

#14. Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

Samantha Power

#16. Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Derek Sivers

#17. Feeling of hatred unto your enemy,
drains your energy as enemy wanted.

Toba Beta

#18. Oversized retail operations of the sort that are called "outlets" (as if they were sewer drains rather than shopping locations).

Stephen King

#19. And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Robert Jordan

#21. During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health.

Charles Duhigg

#22. Sin drains strength.
Righteousness gives strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#24. Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

Sylvia Earle

#25. Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Michael Josephson

#26. Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so?

Stephen King

#27. Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.

Lewis Black

#28. Mitch stood. "How is this my fault? I'm not the one with the pussy that drains the life from a man!"
"And i'm not the one hung like an overendowed donkey

Shelly Laurenston

#29. One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

Robin S. Sharma

#31. What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Caroline Myss

#32. This isn't the time or the place for me to decide to start thinking about monogamy. That ruins men. Clips their nuts, drains their testosterone, destroys the very things that make politicians good politicians.

Adriana Locke

#33. Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There's a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

Dan Skinner

#34. Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

Michael Montoure

#35. Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

Chigozie Obioma

#36. Sin drains strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Xavier Dolan

#38. The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

Michael Hudson

#39. Ironically, most leaders of meetings go out of their way to eliminate or minimize drama and avoid the healthy conflict that results from it. Which only drains the interest of employees.

Patrick Lencioni

#40. My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

Jan Karon

#41. Thou God, seest me, she thought; it had been the text on the wall in the outside lav when she was a girl, and it always made her think of carbolic, and drains.

Lissa Evans

#42. Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

Lorrie Moore

#43. People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.

Chris Colfer

#44. When we assign ourselves the mission of changing others who show no want or need to change, it blocks our spirit-it drains us-and prevents us from attracting into our lives that which we need to grow.

Charles F. Glassman

#45. The water in the drains below the cobbles muttered.

Natasha Pulley

#46. With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

Bryan Ward-Perkins

#47. Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

Alice Greczyn

#48. As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money).

Rose George

#49. Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.
Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

Palle Oswald

#50. This was made for you, I think. For the person you're going to become.
A weapon to fight Death, in its form as the shadow of despair that falls on human minds and drains away their hope for the future.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#51. He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.

David Nicholls

#52. It isn't life that drains us, it is how we live it that does.

Vanshika Prusty

#53. It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Joyce Meyer

#54. Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

George Meyer

#55. Maybe no one person should be that important that their absence drains life of meaning, but he was. Day after day and the loss didnt get any lighter.

C.K. Kelly Martin

#56. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore De Balzac

#57. If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

John Rich

#58. I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice.

Christopher Isherwood

#59. Love isn't about saying cute things and being praised all the time. It's right after a long argument that drains the life out of both of you, and getting

over it the next day.

Auliq Ice

#60. The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

Emily Carr

#61. Whenever an art form - music, book, drama, song - is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art - even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap - drains the life from it.

Paul Theroux

#62. Suddenly the anger drains out of me or maybe the sadness just decides to swallow it. It feels like the whole world should be crying. I hope that it is; I hope that if I were to walk outside our front door, I'd see the entire fucking world seizing in pain.

Marley Jacobs

#63. The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Tim Powers

#64. It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

Cheryl Richardson

#65. The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth ... If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

Will Cuppy

#66. Fear drains us, while love empowers us.

David Jeremiah

#67. Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.

Rabih Alameddine

#68. That's the crux of almost every fight, the moment when the strength drains out of you and the adrenaline pumps so hard that it becomes a burden and surrender appears like a ghost at ringside.

Stieg Larsson

#69. Hide me from the hostile light That does not warm, but burn; That drains the blood of suffering men; Drinks tears, instead of dew; Let me sleep through his blinding reign, And only wake with you!

Charlotte Bronte

#70. Baby, I don't feel pain. Ever. (Talon)
Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine)
It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon)
But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Brielle A. Marino

#72. Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#73. Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.

Sue Patton Thoele

#74. Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

Daphne Oz

#75. A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#76. Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Joan Halifax

#77. There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.

Diana Gabaldon

#78. Burn your dream bright. Pursue it with the best of who you are. But don't confuse hustle with burnout. Hustle fills you up. Burnout empties you. Hustle renews your energy. Burnout drains it.

Jon Acuff

#79. Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you look at history, you discover that the golden age of Spain is what actually produced what we call the guitar.

Cat Stevens

#80. Their melancholy drains me. Their need exhausts me. I am wrung by pity. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving it scarred and sore.

Dean Koontz

#81. Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

Anthea Syrokou

#82. Coercing attitude drains your strength.

Toba Beta

#83. Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.

Oscar De La Renta

#84. Trying is a mentality; it drains and depletes. When you catch yourself trying next time, simply drop the trying and get to it.

Sue Ziang

#85. All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Mickey Rourke

#86. There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

Victoria Glendinning

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

Frederick Lenz

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

Allen Tate

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

Alex Turner

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

Joaquin Phoenix

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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