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Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it. -- Helena Rubinstein
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done. -- Mickey Rourke
Be a fountain, not a drain. -- Rex Hudler
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. -- John Belushi
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. -- Wes Borland
Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy. -- Cobi Jones
Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being. -- Alice Greczyn
If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. -- Paul Weyrich
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. -- Joan Halifax
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. -- Ronald Reagan
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy. -- Cobi Jones
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Paul Dickson
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
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
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
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
It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. -- Joyce Meyer
During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health. -- Charles Duhigg
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain. -- William Archibald Spooner
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. -- Sylvia Earle
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
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me. -- Arthur Golden
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
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. -- Donald E. Westlake
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power. -- Carlos Castaneda
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
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 worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables? -- Samantha Power
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn. -- Jan Karon
As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money). -- Rose George
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
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy. -- Debbie Harry
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. -- Enid Bagnold
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me. -- Edward Hoagland
Sin drains strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Coercing attitude drains your strength. -- Toba Beta
Sin drains strength. Righteousness gives strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy. -- Robert Kiyosaki
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence -- Honore de Balzac
Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it. -- Derek Sivers
Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted. -- Toba Beta
What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains. -- Sir John Davies
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. -- Caroline Myss
Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity. -- Michael Josephson
Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul -- Robin Sharma
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. -- Robert Jordan
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins
Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything -- Brielle A. Marino
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving. -- Daphne Oz
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. -- William Cowper
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure. -- Victoria Glendinning
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. -- Li Bai
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product -- John Warren Kindt
Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye. -- Oscar de la Renta
It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had. -- Robert E. Quinn
The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world. -- Tim Powers
We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand. -- Anneli Rufus
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense. -- Lewis Black
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease. -- Eckhart Tolle

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