Bernard Looney Quotes

I know a lot of people have views on oil and gas companies and our role in the energy transition, I would like to use this platform to talk openly about that and explain the role BP can play, as I believe we share the same concerns and hopes.

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• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Problems
  • Will
  • Decisions

• Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Library

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Crying
  • Ruin

• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Hate

• Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Hope
  • Pride
  • Forward

• There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Play

• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Help
  • Pain

• That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Live

• Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

  

  P. D. James
  • Reading

• Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

  

  Euripides
  • Life is
  • Affair
  • Strife

• Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Keep
  • Pace
  • Long Steps

• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  

  Bronisław Huberman
  • World
  • White Race
  • German intellectuals

• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Business
  • America

• In other words, in Barack Obama’s world, incrementalism is good enough. Fortunately, nobody ever told that to FDR or Teddy Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Bill Press
  • Words
  • Barack Obama
  • Incrementalism

• I know a lot of people have views on oil and gas companies and our role in the energy transition, I would like to use this platform to talk openly about that and explain the role BP can play, as I believe we share the same concerns and hopes.

  

  Bernard Looney
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  • Hopes