Quotes of Oil - somelinesforyou

“ Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ”

- Golda Meir

“ The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. ”

- Zaki Yamani

“ Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free. ”

- Jay Leno

“ John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. ”

- Teresa Heinz Kerry

“ It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light. ”

- Alexandra Johnson

“ Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ”

- Stanley Horowitz

“ I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep. ”

- Melissa Joan Hart

“ Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. ”

- J. Paul Getty

“ The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. ”

- Michael Eisner

“ To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. ”

- George MacDonald

“ Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand. ”

- Ilka Chase

“ Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ Our hunger for electricity is no less than our hunger for gasoline or oil. ”

- Jim Davis

“ I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me. ”

- Clara Hughes

“ The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. ”

- Unknown

“ Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ”

- Bible

“ 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

“ We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love. ”

- Heather Wilson

“ If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ”

- Harold Ross

“ If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. ”

- Rhys Alexander

“ Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. ”

- Josh McDowell

“ Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. ”

- Josh Billings

“ A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ”

- Ouida

“ Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. ”

- George S. Merriam

“ If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead if you strike oil. ”

- J. Paul Getty
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