Oil Quotes

• GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Family
  • President
  • Corruption

• 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
  • Country
  • Convinced
  • Nigeria

• I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

  

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Price
  • Oil
  • Reduce

• I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Like
  • Australia
  • Prefer

• American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Crises
  • R&D
  • American dependence

• Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Persons
  • Pounds
  • Oxygen

• If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Said
  • Oil
  • Collapse

• When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Share
  • Filled

• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Sources
  • Gas
  • Downstream industries

• The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

  

  Bono U2
  • Environment
  • Oil
  • Minerals

• The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

  

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Age
  • Oil
  • Run Out

• Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

  

  Nnimmo Bassey
  • Leave
  • Oil
  • Soil

• When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in America, and I have been involved in working on co-productions for years on both sides of the Atlantic and that's very much at the core of what Playground is doing. So marrying, finding projects that can be co-produced and can be produced using the very best talent from both sides of the Atlantic that's absolutely right at the center of what Playground is doing.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Years
  • Sides
  • Projects

• Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Done
  • Climate

• Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

  

  Christopher A. Pissarides
  • Price
  • Oil
  • Hostage

• The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

  

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Oil
  • Consumers
  • Victims

• We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

  

  Carl Pope
  • Facts
  • Special
  • Independence

• Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Law
  • Oil
  • Muslims

• 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
  • Water
  • Trust
  • Worry

• We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

  

  Billy Nungesser
  • Death
  • Oil
  • Ashore

• The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Advertising
  • Oil

• I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Senate

• Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Live
  • Road

• Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Joy
  • Prayer

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