Tar Quotes

41 quotes by 40 authors

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over… — Sean Covey
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
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the… — Stephen King
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the… — Andrew Nikiforuk
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny… — Sol Saks
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market… — Greg Erwin
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not… — George Berkeley
The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would… — James Hansen
Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and… — Bert Campaneris
Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories.… — Jean Baudrillard
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at… — Margaret MacMillan
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes… — Eric Hoffer
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. — Bill Geist
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline… — Jeff Goodell
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They… — Martin Caidin
I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. — Mitch Hedberg

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