Fuel Quotes

The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

I might not always be given the respect that I should have, but it's what fuels me.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.

Three factors defeated us in the West where I was in command. First, the unheard-of superiority of your air force, which made all movement in daytime impossible. Second, the lack of motor fuel - oil and gas - so that the Panzers and even the Luftwaffe were unable to move. Third, the systematic destruction of all railway communications so that it was impossible to bring one single railroad train across the Rhine.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

To be a winner, you've got to be an appraiser. You've got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more money creates more pressure. Money is the finest fuel in the world.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

A lot of the progress in machine learning - and this is an unpopular opinion in academia - is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.