Oil Quotes - Page 27

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

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

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I`m committed to that. But I`m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.