Oil Quotes - Page 2

• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Aeschylus

  Vinegar, Opponents, Not Friends

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• The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

  Jay Inslee

  Giving, Addiction, Democracy

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• I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Contracts

  "U.S. report cites Russians in oil-for-food probe" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• The oil and wine of merry meeting.

  Washington Irving

  Wine, Humor, Meetings

  Washington Irving (1846). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.206

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• Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

  J. Paul Getty

  Animal, Totems, Capture

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• There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there

  Lloyd Bridges

  Ocean, Garbage, Bigs

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• It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Funny Bush

  "It's Dumbo v Pinocchio" by Francis Wheen, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

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• Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Growth, Important, Economic

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• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel.

  Ted Danson

  Energy, Different, Fuel

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• Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

  John Betjeman

  Views, Luxury, People

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• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Paul Gillmor

  Hurt, Years, Cost

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• In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

  Virgil Goode

  Years, House, Friendly

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• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Office, Midnight

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

  Tony Snow

  Peace, Two, Snow

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• 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

  Land, Long, Energy

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• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  Ralph Nader

  Media, Names, Car

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• And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

  Tim Holden

  Motor Vehicles, Half, Consumption

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• I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

  John Chafee

  Thinking, Damage, Sitting

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• For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  People, Addiction, Gas

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• As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

  Christopher Dodd

  Needs, Temperature, Heating

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• Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

  Edwin Drake

  Crazy, Mean, Technology

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• If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.

  Anil Ambani

  Technology, Bricks And Mortar, Car

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