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Energy Quotes


"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."


"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."


"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."


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


"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."


"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."



"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."


"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."



"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."


"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem."


"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one."


"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast."


"Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods."


"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."


"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."


"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy."



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


"Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR."


"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."


"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."


"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."


"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."



"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."


"But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil."


"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."


"A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created."


"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."


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


"They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity."


"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."


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


"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas."



"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."



"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."


"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."


"We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources."



"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."


"It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics."
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