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“For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?”

People Men Real Self Dream Used Left Differences Enemy Mass Sick Weight Absolutes Giants Massive Ambitious Tied Sheer Drained Pulp Leeches Ambitious Man

Author:Lillian Smith

“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.”

Ends Light Moving Scene Kissing Cameras Sexy Block Idiot Again And Again Angle Drained Camera Angles

Author:Will Poulter

“The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.”

Thinking World Has Beens Imagination Violence Dangerous Outcomes Meals Status Quo Eucharist Congregation Drained

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“There is something about humanity just being drained in many different ways, I think. There are so many things that drain us nowadays, where literally you're just bombarded as a human being. It may be that, or it may be this romantic idea of being forever immortal, of witnessing humanity generation after generation.”

Thinking Way Humans May Ideas Different Humanity Human Beings Forever Generations Different Ways Immortal Just Being Drains Drained Bombarded

Author:Mia Maestro

“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.”

Able Materials Fundamentals Evident Vitality Spontaneity Rewriting Drained Banality Worthlessness

Author:Barry N. Malzberg

“An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.”

Philosophy Whole Social Existence Principles Forever Essentials Fund Collapse Fountain Santa Santa Claus Clauses Drained Interventionism Santa Clause

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.”

Ifs Mind Persons Has Beens Stills Body Hands Purpose Quality Tough Sight Pressure Refuse Reserves Summit Resolute Drained Quickness

Author:Edmund Hillary

“There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.”

Needs Feels Home Courses Like You One Day Steam Hysterical Drained

Author:Gemma Arterton

“I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Can Do Parasites Drained

Author:Ronnie Apteker

“At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.”

Ends Speech Campaigns The End Of The Day Drained

Author:Mitt Romney

“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!”

Ifs Feels Real Feelings Red Spending Toxic Flags Spending Time Drained Red Flags Real Relationship Toxic Relationship

Author:Doreen Virtue

“As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.”

Knows Feels Would Be Teach Break Students Offers Excited Classroom Drained Refocus

Author:Emily Barton

“Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans will be passionately proclaimed as they are drained of substantive content. We happen to be living in such an era, but as often before, there is no reason to suppose that the process is irreversible.”

Sometimes Reason Happens Force Process Intellectual Democratic Familiar Former Eras No Reason Governance Slogans Drained Irreversible

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?”

People Knows Want Feels Long Doe Age Moving Young Process Politician Democratic Moving Forward Digital Frustrated Old People Globalization Digital Age Drained Democratic Process

Author:Anne Applebaum

“The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.”

Art Drained

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“You know an action is the correct one for you because you don't think, "This is costing me my power." I can be tired after a day's work at the right job, but I'm not psychically drained to where I feel like I'm losing life.”

Thinking Knows Feels I Can Action Jobs Losing Tired Drained

Author:Caroline Myss

“The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."”

Mind Believe I Can War Running Speak I Believe Lines Poverty Rights Civil Rights Spokes Vietnam Immoral Vietnam War Drained Keep Running Great Society

Author:Bill Moyers

“All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.”

Dies Half Democracy Blood Vote Population Drained

Book:Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.”

House Months Six Six Months Swamps Drained

Author:Ron Wyden

“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”

Ifs Knows Culture Voice Heard Sea Cry Serious Arms Laughter Criticism Prison Prepared Complaining Backgrounds Tone What If Gates Discourse Anguish Amusement Antidote Giggle Drained

Author:Neil Postman

“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

Men Air Circumstances England London Income Empires Permit Eleven Drained Idlers Study In Scarlet

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.”

Writing Solitude Drained

Book:Writing

Source: Writing

“Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.”

Mad Agents Estates Loathe Drained Spectacles Estate Agents

Author:Stephen Fry

“And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland”

Wells Stories Next Voice Subjects Cry Grew Tales Fancy Dry Weary Next Time Wonderland Drained

Book:The Complete Alice in Wonderland

Source: The Complete Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

Knows Men Feels Heart Long Made Eye Strong Dog My Heart Bitter Emptiness Long Ago Tails Cursed Drained

Author:Amy Tan

“To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”

Men Matter Reason Life Is Loses Mines No Reason Drained

Book:Caligula and Three Other Plays

Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays

“They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.”

Light Running Earth Behinds Sun Blood Sky Creation Color Red Rose Edges Deeper East Sat Pale Unseen Streaks Drained Rims Squat

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.”

People Ifs Men Should Said Feelings Hands Remember Hate Fighting Felt Simple Situation Saws I Hate Tired Leaving Explanation Tolerate Rude Cowboy Stunned Drained Leaving Him

Author:Larry McMurtry

“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.”

Body Faces Air Blood Strange Your Body Disaster Again And Again Lungs You Again Drained

Book:The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“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.”

Felt Perfect Summer Weather Reports Depressing Spontaneity Rainy Day Picnics Drained

Book:The Romantics

Source: The Romantics

“The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.”

Light Rooms Objects Color Sight Practicals Firm Illumination Drained Functionality Matisse Escalating

Book:An Object of Beauty

Source: An Object of Beauty

“He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em." I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?”

Done Jobs Coffee Cups Ems Enlightened Drained Sheriffs

Book:The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set

Source: The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set

“You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.”

Littles I Can Body Left Sleep Forget Moral Leaving Fishes Committed Smell Lust Never Forget Appetite Belly Drained Unrelenting Morbidity

Author:Clive Barker

“The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.”

Writing Drained

Book:Samuel Butler's notebooks

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks

“Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.”

Firsts Has Beens Stills Seems Grief Saws Tree Rose Clean Pity Shattered Drained Sad Day

Book:Millay: Poems

Source: Millay: Poems

“...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.”

Firsts Made Happened Serious Drink Down And Checks Shock Spills Drained

Book:Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

Spiritual Fall Energy Grace Divine Legs Lifts Flats Drained Divine Will

Author:Rumi

“I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.”

“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”

Men Drained Spectacles Estate Agents

Book:Garden Spells

Source: Garden Spells

“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

Sadness Comfort Heroin Drained

Book:Candy

Source: Candy

“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.”

Feels Body Energy Violence Depression Madness Response Storm Affected Zero Evident Psychics Paralysis Antithesis Drained

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“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.”

“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.”

May Has Beens Problem Pain Lost Left Achieve Parenting Our Society Significance Childbirth Drained Transcending Depersonalization Beautiful Pregnancy

Book:Women as mothers

Source: Women as mothers

“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.”

People Home Causes Loss Army Heavy Income Substance Exhaustion Proximity Drained High Prices His Loss

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.”

Stills Winning Mistake Couple Tennis Drained Tahoe

Author:Pete Sampras

“I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.”

Felt White Blood Peaceful Injury Drained Self Injury

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“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.”

Giving Has Beens Matter Climate Change Forests Continuing Emissions Geese Swamps Drained Deforestation

Author:Frances Ford Seymour

“If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.”

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