Best Oil Quotations
1354 Oil quotes by 923 unique authors
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Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
— RZA
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The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say;…
— Charles Reznikoff
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the…
— Albert Oehlen
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I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front…
— Olympia Dukakis
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Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in…
— Bertrand Russell
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the…
— Jim Elliot
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Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of…
— Nikola Tesla
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave…
— George Monbiot
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...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not…
— Unknown Author
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Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of…
— Wendell Berry
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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
— Wendell Berry
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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use…
— Jimmy Carter
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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds…
— Ted Danson
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The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these…
— Rudolf Diesel
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I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of…
— Daryl Hannah
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a…
— Ed Markey
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We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs…
— Barack Obama
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The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on…
— Dennis Weaver
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Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native…
— Winston Churchill
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Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing…
— George Soros
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To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
— Barack Obama
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My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of…
— Unknown Author
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A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry…
— Michael Kumhof
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