Best Petrol Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. You are missing it if man is your hope.”

Source: Become a Better You

“Cars are empowered by either petrol or diesel or gas. That is their fuel. I don't care whether you want to pour pepper soup or orange juice into that car... It can't work! You can't live without intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and move forward”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.”

Heart Air Car Window Noise Man Curse Vehicle Pollution Coal Fog City Rules Gasoline Diesel Street Smog Petrol Heatbeat Drill Bit Grimy

Book:Shatterpoint Alpha

Source: Shatterpoint Alpha

“We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.”

Five Cost Paid Stealing Supposed To Be Pounds Equipment Gigs Petrol Marquee

Author:Andy Partridge

“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.”

“My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.”

Thinking Two Done Reality Jobs Actors Teacher Dad Bases My Dad Stations Supermarkets Two Jobs Petrol

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“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.”

World Wells Hands Christ Water Numbers Taken Land Gold Riches Minorities Silver Ownership Descendants Minerals Small Numbers Petrol

Author:Hugo Chavez

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

Sex Wonderful Starting Fuel Petrol

Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard

“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.”

Feet Dangerous Danger Mines Wind Horror Nuclear Burning Fuel Coal Fossils Fossil Fuel Nuclear Power Petrol Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:David J. C. MacKay

“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.”

Knows Hard Girl Filled Shoulders Stations Naive Vans Oxford Tin Filled Up Petrol Tin Cans

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Happens Running Stuff Car Down And Fuel Rough Slow Down Neglected Petrol

Author:William Katt

“I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.”

Would Be Strong Consumption Carbon Automobile Petrol

Author:Susan George

“There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or televisions. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even that great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball.”

“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.”

People I Can Cases Tough Cinema Stations Bathroom Autographs Petrol

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“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.”

Knows Easy Car Clean Fuel Stations Airplane Petrol Lorry

Author:Richard Branson

“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.”

People Years May Said Order Acting Cases Worry Cutting Car Possibility Years Ago Thirds Bigger Iraq Debate Genuine Bread Secure Gas Afghanistan Dozen Invasion Shrinking Insisting Petrol

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.”

Bigs Tough Stations Bus Crew Touring Petrol

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“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.”

Moments Issues Cost Massive Stations Petrol

Author:Lucy Powell

“I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.”

Littles Light Hate Water Break Summer I Hate Driving Shops Stations Metals Rolling Sock Slopes Puddles Shutters Petrol

Author:Audrey Tautou

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. 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. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.”

Men Way Giving Humans Made Running Spirit Car Machines Asking Bother Fuel Engines Religion God Petrol Asking God

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

Two Reason Three Race Enemy Five Arms Weapons Standing Nuclear Absurd Cold War Gasoline Peacemaking Arms Race Nuclear Arms Petrol Nuclear Arms Race Sagan

Author:Carl Sagan

“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.”

Men Giving Humans Doe Human Beings Sin Car Behavior Treats Wicked Attributes Annoying Foolishness Petrol

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”

People Sometimes Easy Effort Car Loneliness Normal Letters Weight Everyday Buying Milk Filling Superhuman Petrol

Book:The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

“...."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.”

Made Stills Use Bigs Dark Saws Red Dancing Rounds Boring Salt Yelling Leeches Petrol

Book:Burning for Revenge

Source: Burning for Revenge

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Lasts Fall Paper Pages Illusion Ghost Pens Engines Oxygen Firing Lifeless Petrol

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.”

I Can Country Fighting Passion Nations Music Class Streets Middle Middle Class Mates Fierce Dictator Hypocritical Bombers Petrol Upper Middle Class

Author:Pete Doherty

“It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.”

Ifs Wells Looks Energy Economy Crazy Car Mad Smell Driven Explanation Engines Sensible Hypothesis Petrol Parsimony

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

War Country Causes Peace Interest Economy Economic Citizens Conflict International Wheat Petrol

Author:Simone Weil

“It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.”

Ifs Humans Stories Race Mankind Tragedy Boxes Human Race Apes Dump Petrol

Author:David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

“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.”

Needs Littles Ideas Bits Little Bit Vague Tanks Tents Petrol Vague Ideas

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.”

Thinking Feels Use Energy Huge Fearful Petrol

Author:Judi Dench

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

Knows Car Petrol

Author:Vic Reeves

“Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.”

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

Home Fire Catholic Caught Bombs Loaded Petrol

Author:Ian Paisley

“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”

Needs Years Care Support Citizens Politician Sick Patient Oppressed Petrol

Author:Muhammad Ali

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

Giving Wicked Petrol

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

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

Feels Rejection Petrol

Author:Laura Kightlinger

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

Bombs Drank Alex Petrol

Author:Frank Carson

“I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.”

Feels Ends Running Safe Adversity Flight Landing Aeroplanes Dusk Petrol Safe Landing

Author:Winston Churchill

“In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.”

People Way Kind I Can War Action Animal Support Stage Car Arms Shooting Bombs Animal Rights Bombing Doorstep Animal Rights Activists Petrol Animal Activist

Author:Tim Daly

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

Running Walks Car Only Time Australian Petrol

Author:Barry Richards

“We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous”

Should Problem Car Driven Enormous Radical Britain Carbon Motor Urgency Elimination Petrol Motor Cars

Author:Menzies Campbell

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.”

Men Humans Made Running Car Machines Mere Engines Petrol

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.”

People World Views Modern Oil Luxury Modern World World View Petrol

Author:John Betjeman

“Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.”

Country Energy India Independent Saving Appeals Ministers Conservation Petrol Energy Conservation

Author:Veerappa Moily

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

Company Cost Decided Marketing Oil Commodity Input Parameters Petrol Commodity Prices

Author:Veerappa Moily

“It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.”

Knows United Nice Fans Media Football Soccer Being Nice Manchester Manchester United Gallons Kitties Petrol

Author:Noel Gallagher

“When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.”

Way Children Wanted Stage Pumps Petrol

Author:Saffron Burrows

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

Running Iran Petrol

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

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