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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. -- Ron Wyden
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. -- Roald Dahl
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. -- Roger Maris
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. -- Matthew Macfadyen
The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity. -- Celeste Simone
Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. -- Robert T. Bakker
When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized. -- Evangeline Lilly
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. -- Samuel Butler
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. -- Carre Otis
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired. -- Gabby Douglas
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other. -- Mika Brzezinski
For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored. -- Bernie Sanders
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you. -- Rumi
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. -- Deval Patrick
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write. -- Marguerite Duras
As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time. -- Jenna Morasca
The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained. -- Chuck Mangione
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. -- Pete Sampras
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically -- Pete Sampras
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own. -- Rob Lowe
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
I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half. -- Eric Davis
Great 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
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it. -- Barry N. Malzberg
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. -- Ayelet Waldman
I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained. -- John Bonham
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away. -- Sheila Kitzinger
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. -- Eileen Caddy
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. -- Paulo Coelho
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it. -- Camilla Belle
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. -- William Styron
Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side. -- Randeep Hooda
Spending hours stressed out in front of the TV isn't the same as volunteering or donating. Feeling a high level of personal distress makes people feel agitated and emotionally drained, to the point that they lack the energy or detachment to help - or the energy to manage themselves. -- Gretchen Rubin
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. -- Sun Tzu
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail. -- Amy Tan
Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy, they're actually super technical, like, "Move your head, you're blocking her light," or, "Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her." You do it again and again because of the camera angles and takes and whatnot. So by the end of it, it's not even kissing. All the anything is totally drained out of it. -- Will Poulter
You are drained by foolish actions and others. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful. -- Margaret Atwood
Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones. -- Theodore Roethke
Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. -- Thomas Carlyle
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. -- Horace
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. -- Luke Davies
Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun. -- Gerald R. Ford
Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything -- Brielle A. Marino
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us. -- Laurie Helgoe
Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game. -- Frederick Lenz
Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach. -- Robert Byron
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. -- Jane Porter
You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand. -- Margaret Halsey
At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained. -- Mitt Romney
When we feel too drained to move forward, God is right there with us, ready to tenderly revive and restore us. -- Teresa Santoski
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other. -- Mika Brzezinski
I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying. -- Jillian Medoff
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. -- Michael Dolan
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game. -- James Worthy
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up -- Deval Patrick
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. -- Galt Niederhoffer
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. -- Aime Cesaire
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained. -- Frederick Lenz
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history. -- Anne Michaels
Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn't honoring your feelings, it's not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that's a red flag! -- Doreen Virtue
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy. -- John Keegan
There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility of reprisals and he feels free to act. -- M.D. Lachlan
After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid. -- Steven Kotler
Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere. -- Jay Leno
Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there. -- Thom Yorke
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving. -- Frances Ford Seymour
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Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration. -- Donald Barthelme
The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1 -- Alexis de Tocqueville
When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo. -- Debbie Ford

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