Quotes About Draining

Josiah Parkes, inventor of a tile system for draining soils.

Trying to save Western society was exhausting.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

Time and the Gods are at strife; ye dwell in the midst thereof, Draining a little life from the barren breasts of love.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.

Pompoziteti eshte shume i lodhshem.

It must be exhausting to be in your head, Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

President Trump is draining the D.C. swamp by fighting against corporate welfare.

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.

Negative interactions (and the bad apples who provoke them) pack such a wallop in close relationships because they are so distracting, emotionally draining, and deflating. When a group does interdependent work, rotten apples drag down and infect everyone else. Unfortunately, grumpiness, nastiness, laziness, and stupidity are remarkably contagious.

I come away depleted of everything because they just suck me dry, because I tune in to all their moods and, boy, are there some undercurrents there!

To be a showrunner and a director is beyond exhausting.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Not all vegetables are this draining. Lettuce doesn't bring heartache. Turnips don't ask for your soul. Potatoes don't care where you are or even where they are. Tomatoes cuddle up to anyone who'll give them mulch and sunshine. But giants like Max need you every second. You can forget about a whiz-bang social life.

One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

There was a lot of joy to be had in the contemplation of a pint glass; in terms of plain reality of course, there was a deal more to be had in the draining of one.

Emotion can be more exhausting than physical endeavor.

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

It was a face that instantly robbed those who gazed upon it of a good thirty percent of the energy they needed to go on living.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

But false cheer is draining, and if you pretend long enough there's always the possibility that you'll become an automaton.