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  • 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.

    Grief   Winter   Night  
  • Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

    Laughter   Hands   Bones  
    N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful at all.

  • If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.

    Reverse   Draining   Ifs  
  • Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing huge tax benefits to the ultrarich and major corporations, and all the while draining public coffers, increasing the scale of human poverty and misery, and eliminating all viable public spheres - whether they be the social state, public schools, public transportation or any other aspect of a formative culture that addresses the needs of the common good.

    Military   War   School  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 280, 1990.
  • Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  • I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

    Eight   People   Awkward  
    "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.
  • When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

    Wall   Past   Perfect  
    "Rachael Ray: 'I Don't Regret a Thing'" by Cynthia McFadden and Sarah Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. March 2, 2009.
  • The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

    Soul   Hay   Stacking  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing
  • Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

    Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin
  • A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

    Real   Reading   Blood  
  • It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

  • It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

    Drama   Emotional   Roles  
  • Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

  • Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

    Life   Women   Two Sides  
  • O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

    Believe   Fall   Heart  
    Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics
  • It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

    Dream   Real   Hard Work  
  • IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.

    School   Night   Men  
    Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Dirty   Air   Perfect  
    "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.
  • I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

    Single   Girl   People  
  • Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.

    Coffee   Home   Car  
    Source: www.bethkobliner.com
  • He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

    Silence   Bed   Lasts  
    Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.732, Delphi Classics
  • Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

    Hate   Guy   Trying  
  • Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.

    Cute   Sex   Moving  
  • Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

    Peter Charles Newman (1975). “The Canadian Establishment”
  • Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

  • 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.

  • The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

    Flames   Safety   Effort  
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