Oil Quotes - Page 36

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

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

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.

When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.

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.

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

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

No praying, it spoils business.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.