Oilmen Quotes & Sayings

Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors. — Frederic M. Perrin

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember. — Radclyffe Hall

Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. F — Fran Lebowitz

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature. — Carl Jung

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way. — Jim Cymbala

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city. — Gillian Bradshaw

Lyndon Johnson. The junior congressman saw two things that no one else saw. The first was a possible connection between two groups that had previously had no link: conservative Texas oilmen and contractors - most notably his financial backer, Herman Brown, of Brown & Root - who needed federal contracts and tax breaks and were willing to spend money, a lot of money, to get them; and the scores of northern, liberal congressmen, running for re-election, who needed money for their campaigns. The second was that he could become that link. — Robert A. Caro

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back. — Matt Stone

Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen. — Thomas Pynchon

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James

There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way. — RZA

Yes, I am very prolific. — Patrice Leconte

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. — Rod Carew

Before you leave, wouldn't you like the message Sarah's friend left for you?"
She had already started for the door and now turned. "By all means."
"He said he'd destroy your husband... after he killed you. — B. J. Daniels

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that. — Jello Biafra

Please, I'm your friend -- inside that tough-girl shell is a really tough girl. But you're motivated by how much you care. Being part of Team Lois, it's an honor. There's nothing you wouldn't do for any of us. — Gwenda Bond