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  • You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

    War   Believe   Home  
  • Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications
  • The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

    Tunnels   Land   Relax  
  • Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.

    Rain   Men   Light  
  • The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

    Fighting   Want   Pumps  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Tired   Emotional   Upset  
  • There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  • Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.

    Drama   Stuff   Today  
  • 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.

    Wine   Night   Thinking  
    Richard Henry Stoddard (1871). “The Book of the East: And Other Poems”, p.213
  • When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

    Giving   Target   Answers  
  • People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.

  • Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

    Country   Russia   Brain  
    Remarks to Students at St. Petersburg University, Russia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2002.
  • Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

  • There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

    Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
  • In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

    Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House
  • If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

  • 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.

    Garden   Clouds   Sky  
  • Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

    Self   Envy   Energy  
  • You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

    Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)
  • Baby, I don’t feel pain. Ever. (Talon) Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine) It’s a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon) But without pain, you can’t have joy. It’s the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

    Baby   Pain   Sunshine  
  • Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

    Sex   Exercise   Yeast  
  • Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

  • All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

    Prayer   Sacrifice   Men  
  • My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

    Jobs   School   Kids  
  • Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

  • But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.

    Sea   Land   Gone  
  • If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

    "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.
  • People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.

  • We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

    Mean   Long   People  
    Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”
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