Mcclendon Quotes & Sayings

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. — Aubrey McClendon

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years. — Aubrey McClendon

The full moon makes us more...energetic. — Shayne McClendon

When you take the time to develop a relationship with your Creator you will discover yourself. — T.T. McClendon

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. — Aubrey McClendon

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet. — Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security ... or every loan they made? — Aubrey McClendon

Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go. — Aubrey McClendon

I think most people act in their self-interest. — Aubrey McClendon

What did Jonathan Edwards mean in sending word to his wife that their union was "uncommon"? Was it that? And how was a union that had issued in eleven offspring "spiritual"? Of one thing we may be sure: Jonathan Edwards was not using his last words carelessly. This "major artist and chief American philosopher" (Miller, 1949:225) had not yet discarded his palette. His message to her had - all his words had - an exact, uncoded meaning, Lockean in its empirical force, that is there for us to recover if we will attend. Our path is to discover if we can the substance of this "uncommon" and "spiritual" union that was at the same time unquestionably an erotic bond. Something greater than curiosity is at stake for us here. Jonathan Edwards is preeminently a theologian of the heart and of the affections; to discover the kind of love that was central between these two may provide an exact clue to his own theological ethics - a bonus not to be disdained. — James William McClendon Jr.

Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're ... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations. — Aubrey McClendon

Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict — Joseph McClendon III

Life is a gamble and so is love — T.T. McClendon

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route. — Mark Batterson

his big hands, presumably to stop — Ann Troup

19For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — Anonymous

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications. — Sasha Jackson

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year. — Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. — Aubrey McClendon

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process. — Aubrey McClendon

You don't have to be married to be whole. As a matter of fact a husband is an add-on, he is not the completion of the equation. — T.T. McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage. — Aubrey McClendon

She needed air. There wasn't enough air anymore. — Shayne McClendon

It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering. — Kristin Cashore

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries. — Aubrey McClendon