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Energy Quotes


"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."


"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."


"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."


"My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling."


"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."


"Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense."


"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."


"I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest."


"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign."


"While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance."


"I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."


"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."


"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."


"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."


"The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security."


"Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself."



"Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill."


"There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR."


"We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate."



"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."


"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."


"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."


"Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought."


"I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer."


"We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest."



"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."


"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."


"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him."


"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."


"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources."


"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."


"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."


"As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American."


"With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil."


"When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England."


"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."


"Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits."


"India has now graduated from megawatts to gigawatts in terms of renewable energy production"


"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."


"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now."


"It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy."


"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
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