Sapped Quotes

#1. There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

Alexander Kotov

#2. Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents. Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers.

J.D. Vance

#3. I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.

Hermann Hesse

#4. The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would take any energy, but it did.

Lionel Shriver

#5. These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled
he did not fall
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes
He neutralized them all.
She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledge him a man.

Emily Dickinson

#7. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Anna Godbersen

#8. Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.

Conn Iggulden

#9. Indeed, as Peter Whittle recounts, during World War II efforts to solve the question so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts ... that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage.

Brian Christian

#10. The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts

Steven Erikson

#11. We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

Jennifer Roberson

#13. Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader

Ahmed Elkadi

#14. I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests.

Penny Reid

#15. The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#16. If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Winston Churchill

#18. 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

#19. Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

Claude Monet

#20. But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery.

Ransom Riggs

#21. The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the strength to resist the temptations of the Evil One, who is all the more ready to fish ... in troubled waters.

Lauren F. Winner

#22. A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.

Henrik Ibsen

#23. Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Alexander Hamilton

#24. I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#25. Worry is a sin, even I know that, yet I am more than just a lily of the field. I'm a lily that's been plucked from the ground and laid at your feet. When it comes to you, I'm rootless and helpless and at your mercy for sunshine and water. And I'm not even supposed to be yours. How can I not worry?

Sierra Simone

#26. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Andre Weil

#27. Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,

Marie Howe

#28. nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.

Yasmine Galenorn

#29. We are soldiers and have nothing to do with politics. I am obedient to whoever governs the country

Gail Rose Thompson

#30. Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Chris Galford

#31. Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#32. I Twitter (or Facebook) therefore I am

Jayce O'Neal

#33. I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'

Tyrese Gibson

#34. J..es ... u..s fu ... ck..in.g Ch..ri ... st Liam! The bed slammed against the wall.

J.J. McAvoy