Sapping Quotes

#1. So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their toes, sapping the foundations upon which they stood, a sensation both agreeably stilmulating and sightly unnerving

David Lodge

#2. The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Bill Gates

#3. I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

Rupert Lowe

#4. Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

David Brewster

#5. Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx

#6. Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness.

Iain M. Banks

#7. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...

Cato The Younger

#8. The number one reason the Bulletproof Diet is so effective and easy to maintain is that it gives you back your willpower instead of sapping

Anonymous

#9. Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people's altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal one's own rottenness and moral poverty is only possible for a very vain, base, and nasty creature.

Anton Chekhov

#10. IT wanted little more than a fortnight to Christmas; but the weather showed no signs yet of the frost and snow, conventionally associated with the coming season. The atmosphere was unnaturally warm, and the old year was dying feebly in sapping rain and enervating mist.

Wilkie Collins

#11. We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious people like Charlie? They were sapping us. It was our mission to get away from them.

Aaron Starmer

#12. Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Financial and energy-sapping struggle, was that being a parent on your own when you were totally out of your depth was actually the loneliest place on earth.

Jojo Moyes

#14. Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

Sun Tzu

#15. I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.

Preity Zinta

#16. Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

Conrad Burns

#17. For every cloud of revival there is a need to unlock with a key

Sunday Adelaja

#18. His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.

Jane Austen

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Rebecca Watson

#20. My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Jim Goad

#21. Everywhere you find yourself a great opportunity for you to manifest agape love and give. This must be your lifestyle everyday.

Paul Silway