The Prize Daniel Yergin Quotes & Sayings

Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie. — Claudia Whitsitt

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. — Lee Iacocca

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize. — Daniel Yergin

Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?"
Halt hesitated. "Well, no ... of course not."
As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now. — John Flanagan

A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's. — Joshua Emmet

The skin of his torso was smooth and golden, rows of hard silken muscles contracting at her timid touch. His body radiated heat, luring her like a cat to a patch of sunlight. — Lisa Kleypas

No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice. — Barry Unsworth

Our theology and experience of the Spirit must be more interwoven if our experienced life of the Spirit is to be more effective. — Gordon D. Fee

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I ... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? — Henry David Thoreau

I'll eat myself if you can find A smarter hat than me. — J.K. Rowling

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Follow your heart, includes your responsibilities in everyday life; else heart will have only regrets at the end — Sandhya Jane

Lift up your eyes, discouraged one. When you feel like giving up, when they say it can't be done, it's up to you to show them why they're wrong. — Matty Mullins

I wonder how difficult it would be to just make a list of all the top blood purists and kill them.
They'd tried exactly that during the French Revolution, more or less - make a list of all the enemies of Progress and remove everything above the neck - and it hadn't worked out well from what Harry recalled. Maybe he needed to dust off some of those history books his father had bought him, and see if what had gone wrong with the French Revolution was something easy to fix. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. — Eckhart Tolle