Petrol Quotes

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Running, Iran

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• Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

  Veerappa Moily

  Commodity Prices, Oil, Marketing

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• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Rejection, Feels

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• Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Sex, Fuel, Wonderful

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• Me siento como un avión al final de su vuelo, en el crepúsculo, con la gasolina agotándose, en busca de un aterrizaje seguro.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Adversity, Safe

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• Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Pride, Fire

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• The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

  Barry Richards

  Running, Car, Walks

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• A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

  Ewan McGregor

  Ideas, Tanks, Needs

  MarketWatch, September 30, 2008.

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• Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Sick, Support

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• You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

  Bertrand Russell

  Giving, Wicked

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.

  Lucy Powell

  Issues, Cost, Moments

  "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• D'you know, I put so much petrol in me car the other day, I couldn't get in!

  Vic Reeves

  Car, Knows

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• Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!

  Frank Carson

  Alex, Bombs, Drank

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• En realidad se reduce a parsimonia, economía de explicación. Es posible que el motor de tu coche esté impulsado por energía psicoquinética, pero si parece un motor de gasolina, huele como un motor de gasolina y funciona exactamente igual que un motor de gasolina, la hipótesis de trabajo más sensata es que se trata de un motor de gasolina.

  Richard Dawkins

  Crazy, Smell, Mad

  "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.

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• We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Wind, Feet, Nuclear

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  Simone Weil

  País, Paz, Guerra

  "The Power of Words" (1937)

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• ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

  John Marsden

  Dark, Yelling, Dancing

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.

  Hugo Chávez

  Taken, Small Numbers, Hands

  Hugo Chavez's Christmas speech at a rehabilitation center, December 24, 2005.

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• I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

  Lewis Hamilton

  People, Cinema, Bathroom

  "Can you still be the boy next door and live in a Swiss tax haven?" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.

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• La carrera armamentística nuclear es como dos enemigos acérrimos metidos hasta la cintura en gasolina, uno con tres cerillas y el otro con cinco.

  Carl Sagan

  Dos, Raza, Enemigo

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• Demasiada gente en el mundo moderno considera la poesía un lujo, no una necesidad como la gasolina. Pero para mí es el petróleo de la vida.

  John Betjeman

  Views, Luxury, Oil

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• Las giras pueden ser duras; el equipo y yo viajamos a todas partes en un gran autobús rosa y vivimos en gasolineras.

  Marina y los Diamantes

  Tough, Touring, Bigs

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• Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

  Ian Paisley

  Home, Fire, Catholic

  "Only Ian Paisley could have delivered that peace deal in Northern Ireland" by Peter Hain, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.

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• So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.

  Richard Branson

  Airplane, Car, Fuel

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Oxford, Filled Up

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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