Quotes About Drain

It was tough handling angry, troubled kids all day, but that didn't drain me nearly as much as being snubbed by the professionals who never said a cheerful word, let alone an encouraging one. A smile or a single word of appreciation would have made all the difference.

lancing the occasional boil, leeching anyone

He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her.

Already legal and political moves are being made to drain the Great Lakes as a water supply for a thirsty western region.

The Retirement Savings Drain: The Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s

All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Coercing attitude drains your strength.

Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades,

The English were increasingly resentful of the papal appointment of foreigners to English benefices, with its accompanying drain of English money outside the country. In their growing spirit of independence, they were already moving toward a Church of England without being aware of it.

Sometimes I love thee so I wish thee dead. I would devour thy being as my bread; Would drain thy hidden veins dry, as of wine, Red drop by drop, for all my heart has bled!

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

The business has taken a toll on me.

Tolerations are the seemingly inconsequential little things that drain away your energy.

the greater blood flow to the face drained blood from the brain.)

There's not enough of me left over.