Barrels Quotes

165 Barrels quotes by 143 unique authors

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel… — Dalai Lama
Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility… — Leonardo DiCaprio
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing… — John Barrasso
My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care. — Elton John
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only… — John Hoeven
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in… — Steven Johnson
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I… — Alan Jackson
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. — Rodney Crowell
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent… — David Knopfler
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35… — Vinod Khosla
About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period… — John S. Watson
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point… — Harold Hamm
The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible. — Christopher Flavin
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already… — Anton Chekhov
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street… — Horace Greeley

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