Top 1200 Burning Fossil Fuels Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

Wildlife crime goes well beyond just a threat to endangered species but also has impacts on our society, economy and security. It undermines efforts to uphold the rule of law, acts as an agent for corruption, creates a barrier to development and fuels global instability.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Printing novel DNA might open the way to achievements once only conceivable in science fiction: designer bacteria that can produce new chemicals, such as more efficient fuels, or synthetic versions of our cells that make us resistant to the effects of radiation.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

As long as I can compete with the 20-somethings out there... I have a burning passion to do what I do. Financially, I don't need to wrestle anymore. I do it because I enjoy it.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Do not underestimate the intelligence of our farmers. They are not part of the protests staged by the Congress, which is resorting to gimmicks such as burning tractors.

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.