Top 52 Water Or Oil Quotes
#1. The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
Alain De Botton
#3. We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#4. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
Frank Herbert
#5. As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#6. I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are.
Shirin Ebadi
#7. We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
Desmond Tutu
#8. Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here.
Mark Kurlansky
#10. The various torments of life worked in shifts so that one was always on duty. Thus was human misery extracted day and night like water and oil are pulled from the earth. Thus was the toll inflicted, the price one paid for being unwittingly born.
Hugh Howey
#11. Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
Jack Hannah
#12. I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
Jeremy Clarkson
#13. Hot oil! We need hot oil! ... Forget the water balloons!
Gary Larson
#14. Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
Karen Chance
#15. We're oil and water. We don't mix. I'm bad for him. And he's no good for me either, probably. But I'm his, regardless. He needs to know that.
A. Zavarelli
#16. Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Bob Beauprez
#17. While most individuals use the flesh of the coconut in their cooking, coconut water and oil are also known to have numerous health benefits.
Marcus Samuelsson
#18. Watching them was like watching water and oil do the impossible.
N.R. Walker
#21. What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.
Su Shi
#22. We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
Henry Rollins
#23. They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out of the way or killed for such things as oil, water, metal ore, and diamonds.
Daoud Hari
#24. The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.
Kenneth Eade
#25. Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.
Clinton Presba Anderson
#26. You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.
Michael Hudson
#27. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both.
Larry Hagman
#28. Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
Alice Hoffman
#29. Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
Siobhan Davies
#30. Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
Anita Roddick
#31. You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
William H. O'Connell
#32. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#33. When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
Joe Haldeman
#34. And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.
Jackie Kessler
#35. Love and magic are like oil and water
they just don't mix.
Jasper Fforde
#36. Contrary to common public opinion, Iraq is not simply about oil. It is also about water and geopolitics. Both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through Iraq; thus, of all the countries in that part of the world, Iraq controls the most important sources of increasingly critical water resources.
John Perkins
#37. The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.
Tony Hayward
#38. The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
Dennis Vickers
#39. 'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.
John Van Hamersveld
#40. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel De Cervantes
#41. You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
Gautama Buddha
#42. Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.
Jim Butcher
#43. Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#45. Oil the saw, sharpen axes,
Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest-
there are hundreds-
Learn by heart the drainages between
Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.
Gary Snyder
#46. Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.
Pete Townshend
#47. I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)
I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#48. Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
Sarah Palin
#49. I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die.
Rumi
#50. The professional ideal of "detached concern" among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a prerequisite for effective patient care. But, much like oil and water, detachment and concern do not mix easily.
Christina Maslach
#51. The ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
Cheryl Strayed
#52. In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
Ron Kind
