The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
Jay Inslee
PowerDemocracyHelpAddictionOil
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving
GoodHumorLaughterSmallWineOil
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
James Surowiecki
SportsBlueNameNewNowOil
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
PeaceGovernmentWarNewWillOil
I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.
Victoria Justice
DayFishOilSingleComplexTake
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock
WorthOilCoalMillionPoundAbout
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
Dick Cheney
GoodBusinessChooseGoPlacesOil
Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
Ted Deutch
PowerEnergyPlayBeyondOilWithin
I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
Hugh Laurie
HomeFeelNowOilRightWorking
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
Donella Meadows
PartyOilRightRepublicanBigger
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. Boone Pickens
YouOilHardAvailableUseRefinery
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
LoveHeartFlameOilEndureOut
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
David Suzuki
WaterOilResourcesPreciousGas
Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
Sam Brownback
EnergySecurityTaxOthersOilOur
I take magnesium to prevent cramps. A few years back, I suffered from hamstring tears, and part of that can be to do with muscle cramping, and then pushing the muscle at that point. I also take a fish oil supplement.
Greg Rutherford
TearsFishBackOilMuscleYears
There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
Christopher Alexander
RocksSayRockOilHiddenResources
The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
Ramez Naam
EnergyYearOilSolarEverything
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
George W. Bush
OilMoreNationBigClearCome
There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
Clarence Clemons
BetterOilBandYearsUpBeen
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
GodBelieveEndDoingI BelieveOil
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.
Jim Costa
LimitsWeekLongExplorationOil
There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.
Frederick W. Smith
FreeOilMarketFree MarketOPEC
In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
Brad Carson
ChangePeopleEnergyThinkOilMore
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
Major Owens
FallPriceWillOilGasolineSure
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Oil