Quotes about Water and Oil

While most individuals use the flesh of the coconut in their cooking, coconut water and oil are also known to have numerous health benefits. Votes: 4

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. Votes: 3

Friendship and money: oil and water. Votes: 2

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Votes: 2

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Votes: 2

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. Votes: 2

Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy. Votes: 2

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. Votes: 2

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. Votes: 2

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face. Votes: 2

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water. Votes: 2

While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash. Votes: 2

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment. Votes: 2

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it. Votes: 2

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. Votes: 2

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. Votes: 2

Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards. Votes: 2

If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?' Votes: 2

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. Votes: 2

I have kind of a weird technique with zucchini. I cut it into small cubes; sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower. Votes: 2

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine. Votes: 2

Some people are oil and water. Votes: 0

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Votes: 0

Water will be more important than oil this century Votes: 0

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons! Votes: 0

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix. Votes: 0

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed. Votes: 0

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well. Votes: 0

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water. Votes: 0

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. Votes: 0

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. Votes: 0

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it. Votes: 0

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan) Votes: 0

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Votes: 0

And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing. Votes: 0

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. Votes: 0

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ Votes: 0

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply. Votes: 0

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. Votes: 0

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. Votes: 0

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow. Votes: 0

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter. Votes: 0

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. Votes: 0

Very soon nations will understand that in reality Water is the most expensive natural resource for their survivals. Not Middle East oil neither African gold. Votes: 0

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. Votes: 0

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are. Votes: 0