One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.
Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.
He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.
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.
Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.
The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.
The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.
You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.
Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease. Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.
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.
I was surprised at the level of commitment that Andrew Lincoln has. The extreme situations that he's asked to perform - that's got to be seriously draining, and he keeps going and going. He's almost not human.
I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.
I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.
