Turnbow Horse Quotes & Sayings

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production. — Thomas Homer-Dixon

Everything that has ever happened to me is still all with me. — Kate Christensen

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. — Steven Soderbergh

However, the immediacy with which aesthetic judgments arise should not fool us into assuming that their origins are entirely natural or their verdicts unalterable. — Alain De Botton

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured. — Max Lucado

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. — Paulo Coelho

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do. — Allison Silverman

Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat. — Victoria Aveyard

The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ... — Hermann Hesse

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. — Ethel Waters

If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives. — Sharon Salzberg