Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

L'Wren Scott

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.

Melissa George

I've discovered the best skincare, MV Organic Skincare. I love their Energising 9-Oil Cleanser, Rose Hydrating Mist and Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser

Michael Klare

The global supply of oil is going to decline because we've used up a good deal of the easy-to-get oil. We're going to reach a point in the not-too-distant future when it is impossible to keep increasing the daily supply.

Herbert Hoover

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

George Packer

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Richelle Mead

You have to protect her. The more she uses it, the worse it'll get. Stop her, Rose. Stop her before they notice, before they notice and take her away too. Get her out of here." [...] "Don't let her use the power!. . .Save her. Save her from herself!

Richelle Mead

You see something you like?

Rudyard Kipling

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

James Russell Lowell

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Julia Quinn

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Brent Scowcroft

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Confucius

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Spike Milligan

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

Sigmund Freud

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

Sigmund Freud

There are no mistakes

Sigmund Freud

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.