Ahmed Yamani Quotes & Sayings

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there. — Chris Squire

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm always serious about my fun. I — Alastair Reynolds

There is beauty in everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. — Benito Mussolini

If it's true that you have to love yourself before you can love someone else, then I suppose a certain self-regard must've kept me above water during my decade of drowning alone. But I think that in my case it was the other way - that I learned to love myself because someone else finally loved me. Seeing myself whole in another man's eyes, deeper than any mirror, and neither of us looking away because there's so much lost time to make up for. — Paul Monette

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. — Robert Reich

The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny. — Wayne W. Dyer

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities. — Benjamin Whichcote

Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Margaret stood all alone at her first witch-burning. She had on her new blue cap and her sister's shawl, and she stood by herself, waiting. She had long ago given up on finding her sister and brother-in-law in the crowd, and was now content to watch alone. She felt a very pleasant fear and a crying excitement over the burning; she had lived all her life in the country and now, staying with her sister in the city, she was being introduced to the customs of society. — Shirley Jackson

The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Everyone must play his role. — Anne Tyler

It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage? — Linda Weaver Clarke

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment — Jane Austen