Daniel Yergin Quotes

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.

Daniel Yergin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1947

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WarWorldYouPriceGoSaid

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.

Joanna Coles

AgeThoughtWeekI CanWriteFirst

It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

Jidenna

PurposeBetterSomeoneYourThan

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Robert Peel

StrengthCourageTimeManWill

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.

Robert Lepage

HistoryPeopleSmallStoryReality

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

Robert Gottlieb

TodayDestinationComedyHeavenLike

I've been to parties where I've seen guys mess up. They've been dying to bust out those crazy embroidered corduroys all year long, and it doesn't always fly.

Michael Bastian

CrazyFlyYearLongDyingMess

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Sienna Miller

HeartTimeBrokenYouFirst Time

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

Robbie Williams

FoodMeSomethingGotWellGet

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

Miley Cyrus

BestMeTreatPridePersonNice

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

Clayton M. Christensen

WaterCapitalismDrinkSoundSeem

I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

Brendon Urie

SmartThoughtSaturdayFallBoyOut

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Arthur Miller

LoveRoseRememberRosesTryingYou

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