Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by… — J. G. Ballard
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them… — Hugo Black
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them… — Jeff Bridges
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a… — Vince Cable
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who… — Vince Cable
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school,… — Jim Carrey
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call… — Swami Satchidananda
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.… — Rumi
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. — Edgar Bergen
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a… — Rajneesh
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form… — Ambrose Bierce
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Agostino Scilla
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with… — Frank Drake

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