Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roberts Rinehart

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Navid Negahban

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.

Maria Cantwell

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

Maria Bartiromo

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

Naomi Klein

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Paul R. Ehrlich

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

Paul Gillmor

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Larry Wachtel

It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Christine Benz

A lot of the large growth stocks are taking a breather.

Ethan Harris

A lot of things have to go right even to get 2.3 percent growth for the year,

Jason Goldberg

A lot of these are not new products. But the growth opportunities are better outside the U.S.

Kari Pinkernell

They don't want give out a dividend because they think they'll give up their growth stock status. But they aren't growth stocks anymore.

David Jackson

They don't have the root system to pull them through. Trees and shrubs and older plants can push out new growth after the primary growth has been killed off, but shallow rooted plants can't.

Ethan Harris

This is a feel-good report. When you get a strong growth number and a low inflation number, it's hard to get a better combination than that for the economy.

Angel Olsen

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Amanda Lindhout

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Anita Sarkeesian

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.

Richard Bach

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Robert Fritz

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

Richard McCabe

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Thornton Wilder

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Timothy Leary

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Thomas S. Monson

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.