Fuel quotes
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
-- Adam Savage -
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.
-- Andre Simon -
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.
-- Angel Feliciano -
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
-- Anne Lamott -
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.
-- Ben Roethlisberger -
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We know that dreams fuel innovation.
-- Bertrand Piccard -
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
-- Bill McKibben -
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
-- Bill McKibben -
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.
-- Bill McKibben -
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
-- Bill McKibben -
Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
-- Bob Beauprez -
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
-- Bobby Jindal -
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After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
-- Brad Garrett -
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
-- Brené Brown -
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
-- Brené Brown -
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Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.
-- Bruce Lee -
Passion is the very fuel of inspiration.
-- Carole Katchen -
Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
-- Carrie-Anne Moss -
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
-- Charles Kingsford Smith -
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Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.
-- Chazz Palminteri -
Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.
-- Christian Smith -
I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.
-- Christina Ricci -
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Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
-- Cindy Sherman -
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
-- Dan Lipinski -
Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
-- Dara Torres -
Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.
-- Dave Heineman -
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
-- David Goodstein -
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
-- David Goodstein -
The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.
-- David Goodstein -
Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.
-- David Neeleman -
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
-- David R. Brower -
I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.
-- David Rubenstein -
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
-- David Suzuki -
Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.
-- Davy Crockett -
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We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.
-- Desmond Tutu -
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.
-- Dieter Zetsche -
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
-- Ed Markey -
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
-- Edward Zwick -
Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard -
You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.
-- Emily Oster -
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
-- Erwin McManus -
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Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
-- Fatih Birol -
Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.
-- Felix Kramer -
Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
-- Francois Hollande -
Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
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Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.
-- George Arthur French -
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.
-- George Eliot -
Now that Iran has entered into production of nuclear fuel on an industrial, there will be no limit on the production of nuclear fuel in Iran.
-- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh -
beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.
-- Gwynne Dyer -
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.
-- Harriet Lerner -
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
-- Henry Cloud -
It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.
-- Henry Sylvester Jacoby -
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.
-- Hermann Scheer -
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
-- Horace Walpole -
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Pain is fuel for a fitter world
-- Hrithik Roshan -
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
-- Irving Stone -
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
-- J. D. Hayworth -
Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.
-- J. D. Hayworth -
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
-- Jack Herer -
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
-- James Buchan -
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
-- James Hansen -
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
-- James Hansen -
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No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.
-- James Howard Kunstler -
I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.
-- James McBride -
Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.
-- Jan Hammer -
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
-- Jan Schakowsky -
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Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
-- Jane Smiley -
This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.
-- Janet Finch -
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
-- Janine Benyus -
For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
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There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'
-- Jennifer Hudson -
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.
-- Jeremy Collier -
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
-- Jet Li -
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
-- Jim Jarmusch -
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.
-- Jim Jarmusch -
This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.
-- Jim Wallis -
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Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
-- Joe Bastianich -
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.
-- Joe Bastianich -
The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.
-- Joe Biden -
Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.
-- John C. Norcross -
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If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
-- John Conyers -
If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.
-- John F. Kerry -
Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.
-- John Hagelin -
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
