Oil Quotes - page 34

If the oil price goes down, Russia will go down. You can track the Ruble, you can track the stock market, just off the price of oil. (Bill Browder)
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. View quote
Dave Matthews
We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil. View quote
Jon Corzine
Excuse me Mr. But isn't that your oil in the sea? And the pollution in the air Mr. Whose could that be?So excuse me Mr. But I'm a mister too And you're givin' Mr. a bad name, Mr. like you. View quote
Ben Harper
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance? View quote
William Butler Yeats
Within one cup pour vinegar and oil, And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war. View quote
Aeschylus
Eloquence smooth and cutting, is like a razor whetted with oil. View quote
Jonathan Swift
about Archimedes ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draw lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science. View quote
Plutarch
A great nation's foreign policy involves power, money, trade, oil and arms, but it proeeds from ideas. View quote
William Pfaff
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day. View quote
C. S. Forester
‘The people' have in fact done everything that is done; they built the houses and roads and railroads and telephones and planes, they organized world‐wide cooperative institutions-the oil companies, the banks-and the postal services, and the militia companies, and the schools-what didn't ‘the people' do? What happens is that, after they do it, The Government takes it. The Government takes the roads, the postal service, the systems of communication, the banks, the markets, the stock exchanges, the insurance companies, the schools, the militia, the building trades, the telegraph and telephones, the radios, after ‘the people' have done all these things for themselves. (Rose Wilder Lane)
[I] launched a new offensive against the fortress of painting. First, white thinned out in linseed oil as a general base. Second, color the entire surface lightly by applying very large areas of different colors that swim into one other and that must remain free of any effect of chiaroscuro. Third, a drawing, independent of and substituting for the unformulated tonal values. Then, at the end, some bass notes to ward off flabbiness, not too dark, but colored bass notes. This is the style that connects drawing and the realm of color, a saving transfer of my fundamental graphic talent into the domain of painting. View quote
Paul Klee
Liberated, Iraq is the only Arab country, so far, to have changed governments three times through elections and also the only one where all political parties operate freely. Iraqis didn't achieve what they hoped; they achieved what they could. The invasion was not about the United States setting up bases or stealing Iraq's oil or using Iraq for an invasion of Iran, as Saddam's apologists claimed. Nor was it about imposing democracy by force. It was about two things: stopping a time bomb that was ticking in the heart of the region and removing the impediment to democratization that was Saddam's regime. More than a million Americans fought and worked in Iraq. They share part of the credit for the fact that Iraqis today are able to run their own lives without fear. They can be proud that, once again, American power was used to free a nation from tyranny. View quote
Amir Taheri
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. View quote
Salman Rushdie
To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running. View quote
Matt Taibbi
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. View quote
Mitt Romney
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. View quote
Chuck Close
They (the Iraqi people) scraped by to get morsels. You skulked by to get contracts. They couldn't realize a penny from the oil that made Saddam rich. You didn't seem to care, as long as it made you rich. You opted for profit over principle. And deals that made a dictator richer and his people poorer. ... You are as crass as you are cunning. As phony as you are pathetic. ... You were sickening then. You're sickening now. View quote
Neil Cavuto
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love. View quote
Heather Wilson
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. (John Thune)
The Human Oil Slick. View quote
Keith Olbermann
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. View quote
Wangari Maathai
...talking as though the Standard Oil Company was the smallest thing he owned. View quote
Addison Mizner
We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. View quote
Warren Buffett