(3849 quotes found)
“We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
Ralph Nader
“Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.”
V. S. Naipaul
“Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.”
“Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural instruction given to an intelligent man spread out by virtue of their nature.”
Chanakya
“The day of my wedding is pre-ordained. Come - let's gather together and pour the oil over the threshold.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire.”
William Shakespeare
“Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: / But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.”
Bible
“It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light.”
Alexandra Johnson
“Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told President Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.”
Oliver Stone
