"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

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"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

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"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."

Clarence Clemons, American Musician

Oil, Years

"The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated."

Gary Miller, American Politician

Oil, States, United

"We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that."

Rodrigo Rato, Spanish Politician

Oil, World

"We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials."

Hassanal Bolkiah, Bruneian Statesman

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"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter."

Ron Klein, American Politician

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"Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies."

Major R. Owens, American Politician

Oil, Will

"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."

Paul Newman, American Actor

Oil, Stars

"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."

Barbara Castle, British Politician

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"Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil."

Rob Corddry, American Comedian

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Explore more quotes by George MacDonald

"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."

Spiritual, Prayer, Divine, Identity, Reflection

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

Wisdom, Work, Body, Disease

"It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless-he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value-a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag."

Morality, Wealth, Poverty, Honesty, Ethics

"I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are."

Philosophy, Belief, Justice, Faith, Life

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."

Leisure, Amusement, Deep, Water

"There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the higher nature that belongs to us by birthright, than this, that even a just anger tends to make us unjust and unkind."

Ethics, Anger, Behavior, Justice

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."

Forgiveness, Life, Giving

"Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality."

Motivation, Dream, Vision, Imagination, Aspiration

"There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end."

Emotion, Anger, Nature, Observation