Ahmed Zaki Quotes

#1. I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#2. Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Annie Dillard

#3. The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

Caspar David Friedrich

#4. I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

Neve Campbell

#5. The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Aristide Briand

#6. For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.

Sophie Jordan

#7. Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Kevin Hart

#8. The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#9. I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#11. The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#12. The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#13. I'm not a natural songwriter.

Rod Stewart

#14. The sea is as near as we come to another world.

Anne Stevenson

#15. The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#16. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#18. Islands are where species go to die.

David Quammen

#19. Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you know now that you ought not to do this, for he is very likely taking it to Peter
Pan.

J.M. Barrie

#20. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

#21. I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani