Quotes About Striking Oil

#1. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

Paul Theroux

#2. Kissi frowned ar him, then looked at me for explanation. I widened my eyes, grimaced: the look women give each other when they're embarrassed of the men they're with.

Gillian Flynn

#3. All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. My heart breaks to see the world in such turmoil.

Billy Graham

#5. Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. Hell if I know. That's for smart people like you to figure out. I'm just trying to get college guys to speed up their blow jobs.

Richelle Mead

#7. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On

George Orwell

#8. At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know ... wall.

D.J. MacHale

#9. When the wind is at your back, you don't even notice it
But when it is blowing in your face, you become very aware of it's presence.
That's how it is with privilege:
When you have it, you don't even notice it
When you don't have it - you know.

Shara

#10. Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

Northrop Frye

#11. Ana - as usual, you're my

E.L. James

#12. Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding