Oil Quotes

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

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

‎We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

To fight, we must have oil for our machine.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.