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Energy Quotes


"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."


"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."


"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."


"But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected."


"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal."


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


"Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language."


"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."


"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."


"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."


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


"The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement."


"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."



"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills."


"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"


"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing."


"We get more oil from Canada than any country."


"Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies."



"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."


"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."


"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."


"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you."


"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."


"A positive attitude will elevate your energy and invigorate your tasks."


"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."


"On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy."


"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."


"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."


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


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


"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."


"The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."


"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."


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