Draining Quotes

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. (Margaret Mead)
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. View quote
Edith Wharton
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. View quote
Adam Smith
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action. View quote
Allan Bloom
They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining. View quote
Michael Hutchence
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. View quote
Alvin Ailey
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it. View quote
David Soul
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love. View quote
Jonny Lang
Seeing a lot of water like that every day is probably an important thing for human beings. For human beings might be a bit of a generalization-but I do know it's important for one person: me. If I go for a time without seeing water, I feel like something's slowly draining out of me. It's probably like the feeling a music lover has when, for whatever reason, he's separated from music for a long time. The fact that I was raised near the sea might have something to do with it. View quote
Haruki Murakami
In short, the root-head turns the crab into a Darwinian cipher, a feeding machine working entirely in the parasite's service. The castrated crab can make no contribution to its own evolutionary history; its "Darwinian fitness" has become flat zero. ...But ever so carefully, for the parasite must maintain the crab in constant and perfect servitude - not draining the host enough to kill this golden goose, but not letting the crab do anything for its own Darwinian benefit. (Stephen Jay Gould)
It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support. View quote
Sean Combs
I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep. View quote
John Ashcroft
I know that my early life was at one and the same time so common as to be unremarkable, and so strange as to be the stuff of fiction. I know of course that this is how all human lives are, but that it is only given to a few of us to luxuriate in the bath of self-revelation, self-curiosity, apology, revenge, bafflement, vanity and egoism that goes under the name Autobiography. You have seen me at my washpot scrubbing at the grime of years: to wallow in a washpot may not be the same thing as to be purified and cleansed, but I have come away from this very draining, highly bewildering and passionately intense few months feeling slightly less dirty. Less dirty about the first twenty years of my life, at least. The second twenty, now that is another story. View quote
Stephen Fry
I went for a walk through the streets. My God, here I was again, roaming the town. I looked at the faces around me, and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast. I had to get away from that town. View quote
John Fante
It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. View quote
Christina Aguilera
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. View quote
Sean Penn
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy. View quote
Richard Rogers
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it. View quote
Rob Sheffield
What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on. (Sylvia Day)
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. View quote
Jenny Lawson
The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. View quote
Raymond Carver
For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining. View quote
Ashley Bell
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing. View quote
Christopher Meloni