Oilman Quotes

#1. George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

Donella Meadows

#2. Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#3. Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James Fenimore Cooper

#5. Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.

Mary Warnock

#6. I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Anjelica Huston

#7. The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order ...

Stanislaw Lem

#8. AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

Hal Duncan

#9. I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#10. When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

Kit Harington

#11. Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

George Allen

#12. They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.

Rose McGowan

#13. I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Tom Stoppard

#14. Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

T.F. Hodge

#15. It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.

Leon Morris

#16. I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Neil Young