Quotes with gas-lamp

Quotes 21 till 40 of 51.

  • Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Alfred Kastler I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
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  • Bill Richardson I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Assata Shakur If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • D. H. Lawrence Knowledge has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Earl Wilson Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Andrew Lang Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
    1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Lord George Byron Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John McCain Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bill Vaughan The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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