298 quotes found
“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.”
“Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.”
“Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!”
“I thought about how, at twenty-six, I shouldn’t have to floss yet, who wants to be bothered! I didn’t even have the energy left over for flossing. I mean, how many things was I supposed to do? Flos...”
“Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?”
“Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings...”
“Life is all energy and it multiplies and spreads. Energy doesn’t have the color of its own, but it waits for you to add, whatever you want to it. Whatever color you choose to give to your energy, i...”
“Matter is but the artificial division of energy.”
“Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don’t really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaning...”
“We are not going to reduce energy capture unless catastrophe forces us to—which means that the only way to avoid running out of resources, poisoning the planet, or both, will be by tapping into ren...”
“By 1870, Britain’s steam engines generated 4 million horsepower, equivalent to the work of 40 million men, who—if industry had still depended on muscles—would have eaten more than three times Brita...”
“Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.”
“In fact, there is nothing we can conceive of that is not energy. It doesn’t just infuse everything; it is everything.”
“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.”
“The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?”
“Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.”
“Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that’s left is a shell". HS/el”
“Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell’s argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world’s ugliest and most expensive hyd...”
