| "Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles." »Barbara Hall |
| "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." »Miguel Cerbantes |
| "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." »Colette |
| "It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind." »Barbara Hall |
| "oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." »Bill Tammeus |
| "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil" »Golda Meir |
| "The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football." »Mark White |
| "You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha |
| "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." »Washington Irving |
| "Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda |
| "They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach." »Luigi Barzini |
| "In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in Hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed" »Ron Garner |
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