Quotes About Energy Alternatives

#1. Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

Jim Clyburn

#2. Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Sarah Palin

#3. Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

Maisie Williams

#4. Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Michael Moorcock

#5. As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

Laozi

#6. All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#7. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#8. Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#9. You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

J.K. Rowling

#10. We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.

Winona LaDuke

#11. I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

Cherie Blair

#12. Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Frances Beinecke

#13. Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

Miyamoto Musashi

#14. We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

#15. I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.

Pete Domenici

#16. In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Evgeny Morozov

#17. A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#18. Maybe I will do what I want with my life!
The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.

Orson Scott Card

#19. I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources ...

Barack Obama

#20. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

Peter Boghossian

#21. Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.

Jimmy Carter

#22. There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Some of us don't trust others unless there's a reason to trust them.
I prefer to trust others until they give me a reason not to.

Steven Aitchison

#24. We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.

Peter Roskam

#25. Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.

Debasish Mridha

#26. We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

Barack Obama

#27. The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

Christopher Flavin

#28. I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

Keisha Castle-Hughes