Siphoning Quotes

#1. The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

Robert Gilpin

#2. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Deborah Eisenberg

#3. Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak.

Sonia Choquette

#4. Clinics are clogged with too many veterans who don't need to be there, siphoning resources from those, like Eddie, who do.

Laura Beil

#5. Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

Alan Weisman

#6. Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

Ray Allen

#8. They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

#9. This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

Frank Rich

#11. So cotton growers, siphoning from the Ogallala, get three billion dollars a year in taxpayer money for fiber that is shipped to China, where it is used to make cheap clothing sold back to American chain retail stores like Wal-Mart.

Timothy Egan

#12. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Edmund Burke

#13. I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#14. Apparently, fate was intent on making this a teaching moment. The lessons? You never become immune to new pain, you don't get credit for old pain and it ain't up to you to decide when you've had your share of it.

Christine Bell

#15. I love India. I love the people, food and the environment. Yes, I am from London, but right from when I was a toddler, I've always lived between Mumbai and London.

Jiah Khan

#16. Promise me you'll give it all to God and let Him decide it for you. He'll gift you no regrets.

Fisher Amelie

#17. Emilia hooked her arm through mine, like we were the best of friends. "You solve problems," she said again. "I have a problem. Ergo . . .

Jennifer Lynn Barnes