Oil Quotes
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God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
Jim Elliot
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Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
Veerappa Moily
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
Pankaj Mishra
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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
Frances Beinecke
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I believe that data is the new oil. I am saying it in this country because I believe that the prosperity that oil brought in the last 50 years, data will bring in the next 50, 100 years if you use it the right way.
Ajaypal Singh Banga
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Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
Barack Obama
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My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.
Nicolae Ceausescu
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If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
William Randolph Hearst
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Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price
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I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.
Lynn Barber
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
Anna Friel
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
Wole Soyinka
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy John Biglow surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.
Brad Alan Lewis
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
M. King Hubbert
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Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
Karen Chance
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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
Bonaventure
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander
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Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
Banksy
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I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
Ahmed Chalabi
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Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
Anzia Yezierska