Petrostates Reserves Quotes

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting. ~ Fatih Birol

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world. ~ Jay Inslee

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. ~ Barney Ross

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football. ~ John Carlin

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. ~ Asger Jorn

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts. ~ Enric Sala

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead ... ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is being found at a rate that is faster than that of new oil reserves, it is relatively abundant and the reserves are longer lived than the oil reserves. It does not get the kind of attention it deserves. ~ Robert Bryce

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation. ~ Gina McCarthy

And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team. ~ David Peace

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. ~ Rick Wagoner

Men and women
even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers. ~ Mark Twain

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms. ~ Richard Lamm

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers. ~ Newt Gingrich

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country. ~ Nelson W. Aldrich

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor. ~ Hugo Chavez

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today. ~ John F. Kennedy

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains. ~ Randall Robinson

Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world. ~ Evo Morales

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ~ Ruth First

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities. ~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves. ~ Van Jones

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ~ John Dewey

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. ~ Bob Ney

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves! ~ Bob Beauprez

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions ~ Desmond Tutu

There must be reserves
except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it. ~ Margaret Deland

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development. ~ Daniel Yergin

A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive. ~ Gertrude Stein

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others. ~ R.C. Sproul

By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers. ~ Barack Obama

When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War, ~ Chris Hayes

Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it. ~ Lowitja O'Donoghue

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? ~ Rick Perry

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. ~ Barack Obama

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life. ~ Richie Benaud

With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy. ~ Zack Wamp

Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity , and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it. ~ Lionel Trilling

Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche. ~ Chris Kilham

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous. ~ Noam Chomsky

Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments. ~ John James Cowperthwaite

Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god. ~ Patrick Cockburn

I reserve my right to be complex. ~ Leslie Feinberg

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling. ~ Herbert Read

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you. ~ Baltasar Gracian

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton. ~ Ayelet Waldman

yoga is an extremely effective way to unlock your reserves of vitality. ~ Robin S. Sharma

People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before. ~ Harold S. Kushner

There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was! ~ Dante Friend

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace , I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death , say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in the war for peace. ~ Yitzhak Rabin

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. Give him one more chance. ~ Ian Fleming

Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself. ~ Gail Carriger

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. ~ Oprah Winfrey

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand
but He reserves vengeance for His very own. ~ Mark Twain

...years of resolute self-denial, instead of rewarding him with reserves of fortitude, had left him more than ordinarily susceptible to temptation. ~ John Cheever

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself. ~ Francis Quarles

Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content ~ Hannah Whitall Smith

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. ~ Rachel Carson

Worry destroys the ability to write. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Ever since the Federal reserve was born, (in 1913) we have been living under a lie. ~ Michael Maloney

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them. ~ Diane Johnson

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. ~ Manmohan Singh

The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories. ~ Adolf Galland

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited. ~ Veerappa Moily

Burning was a bad way to go, but my reserves of empathy were usually exhausted on orphans and puppies, a lot higher up the list than arsonists and
arseholes. ~ Ed McDonald

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. ~ Joseph Campbell

Everything we earn we need as a reserve. ~ Ingvar Kamprad

The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express, ~ Michael Ruppert

Memories of shame have greater reserves of power to haunt than even memories of love. ~ Glenn Haybittle

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back. ~ Enric Sala

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ~ Jane Austen

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like. ~ Billy Connolly

Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there's a potential there for excess reserves to create problems. ~ Arthur Laffer

There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve ~ Herman Cain

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer. ~ Thomas Moore

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. ~ Cato The Younger

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~ Thornton Wilder

I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me. ~ Jeffree Star

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. ~ Jim Costa

How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves. ~ Saina Nehwal

Children, even the most shy and tongue-tied, spill all their vibrancy out into the world. There are no reserves, no deep wells where emotion sinks and is buried. ~ Katy Simpson Smith

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available. ~ Mary Roach

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. ~ David Brock

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth. ~ William Rounseville Alger

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us. ~ Alex Jones

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ~ Joseph Barbera

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. ~ Anais Nin

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it. ~ James Hansen

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh. ~ Willie Stargell

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. ~ Pierre Charron

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. ~ George Soros

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve. ~ Tiger Woods

If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet. ~ Bill McKibben

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve. ~ Geoffrey Madan

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth. ~ Mark Hoppus

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society. ~ Benito Mussolini

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will. ~ Richard Perle