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Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp. -- Kellyanne Conway
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. -- John Belushi
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. -- Wes Borland
Being fashionable does not mean you have to drain your bank account. -- Brad Goreski
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. -- Chogyam Trungpa
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. -- Margaret Cho
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free. -- Gary Ross
Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me. -- Pauly Shore
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. -- Martin Yan
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. -- Rush Limbaugh
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. -- Wim Wenders
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. -- David McCallum
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination. -- Sasha Pieterse
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. -- Marat Safin
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' -- T. S. Eliot
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. -- William Odom
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. -- Ted Danson
I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems. -- Roger Daltrey
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. -- Al Lewis
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global. -- David Attenborough
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. -- Simon Schama
Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare. -- Ban Ki-moon
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional. -- David Cameron
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where. -- Ted Strickland
Be a fountain, not a drain. -- Rex Hudler
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. -- Homer
Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus -- Jon Gordon
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. -- Robert H. Schuller
Activity without purpose is the drain of your life -- Tony Robbins
Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships. -- Julia Cameron
For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.... -- Allen Tate
People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY. -- Hans F. Hasen
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain. -- Walter Scott
People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely. -- Hans FroÃ°i Hansen
Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy. -- Frederick Lenz
It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away. -- Blaise Pascal
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. -- Charles M. Blow
Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain' -- Richard Kauffmann
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. -- Harold Pinter
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. -- Euripides
Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy. -- Cobi Jones
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. -- Neil Gaiman
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. -- Alex Turner
We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp. -- Donald Trump
Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy. -- Arianna Huffington
All the drain leads to the ocean...So chill out and enjoy the motion! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines -- John Warren Kindt
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. -- Elizabeth Gould Davis
The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. -- James Doohan
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them. -- Brennan Manning
I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain. -- Bob Dylan
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. -- A. P. Herbert
Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy. -- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. -- Brennan Manning
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced. -- Kelley Armstrong
Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff. -- Trent Shelton
The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them. -- James Redfield
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. -- John Henry Jowett
Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap. -- Rita Mae Brown
It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders. -- Larry Flynt
If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain? -- Charles Spurgeon
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. -- John Oliver
I got enemies, I got a lotta enemies. Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy. -- Drake
You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing. -- Joaquin Phoenix
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. -- Ronald Reagan
If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. -- Paul Weyrich
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket! -- Frederick Lenz
Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble. -- Henry Giroux
The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything. -- Daniel Handler
Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling. -- Gautama Buddha
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are. -- Frederick Lenz
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Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Paul Dickson
Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day. -- Heinrich Heine
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. -- J. I. Packer
Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. -- Hal Borland
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. -- Carl Jung
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. -- James Gould Cozzens
You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people. -- Donald Trump
Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs. -- Neal Barnard
Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days. -- Josh Lanyon
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too. -- E. B. White
My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us. -- Frederick Lenz
There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time. -- Clive James
Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you. -- Frederick Lenz
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus on your positive energy and kill them with kindness. Energy vampires are no match for your positive energy. -- Jon Gordon
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain. -- Olivia Wilde
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain! -- Robert A. Heinlein
People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim. -- Frederick Lenz
Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily. -- Anthea Turner
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain. -- Abraham Verghese
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. -- Sean Parker
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame. -- Brad Paisley
If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator. -- Frederick Lenz
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. -- Henry David Thoreau
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists. -- Daniel Ek
In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you. -- Frederick Lenz
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it. -- Elton John
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed. -- Ray Allen

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