Oil Dependency Quotes

#1. It is in our best interest to ... embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.

Albert Marrin

#2. Mom always says to leave him alone, that he's an introvert and he needs to get his energy from a quiet place inside himself and that she can relate. I think he gets his energy from paint fumes and really good wee.

Carrie Firestone

#3. With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

Mary Bono

#4. We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Bobby Jindal

#5. I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

Michael Spiller

#6. There is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

Larry Burkett

#7. This is beauty ... and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time.

Amy Tan

#8. If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.

Rodney Brooks

#10. Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.

Charlie Munger

#11. Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

Maurice Flanagan

#12. Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Christine Pelosi

#14. Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

Jim Costa

#15. If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Bart Gordon

#16. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

Atul Gawande

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Billionaire's Indulgence #1

Scarlett Avery

#18. We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

Paul Gillmor

#19. Ethics is a dream.

Charles Baxter

#20. The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

#21. That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

Dean Stockwell

#22. The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer