Actions Quotes Logo

Energy Quotes

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and re...

Show More

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...

Show More

A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "...

Show More
Picture of Wendell Berry
Wendell BerryThe Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have u...

Show More
Picture of Wendell Berry
Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...

Show More

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...

Show More

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

Show More
Picture of William Blake
William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

Show More
A
AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But w...

Show More
Picture of Aesop
AesopAesop's Fables

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

Show More
Picture of Al Alvarez
Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the con...

Show More

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Picture of Amit Ray
Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and ch...

Show More
Picture of Amit Ray
Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its ha...

Show More

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a f...

Show More

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

Show More

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Show More
Picture of Annie Dillard
Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast ov...

Show More

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constr...

Show More

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Picture of Aristotle
AristotleThe Philosophy of Aristotle

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those ...

Show More
Picture of Audre Lorde
Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

Picture of Barack Obama
Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, a...

Show More

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the ...

Show More

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, a...

Show More

If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest ...

Show More

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his succes...

Show More

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundame...

Show More

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Picture of Bill Bryson
Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within...

Show More
Picture of Bill Bryson
Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting scienc...

Show More

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted ene...

Show More

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

Show More

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued;...

Show More

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...

Show More

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energ...

Show More

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate ch...

Show More

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resourc...

Show More

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping ...

Show More

It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save hims...

Show More

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in t...

Show More

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

Show More

Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks...

Show More

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matt...

Show More

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

Show More

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

Show More

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we al...

Show More

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciou...

Show More

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and ...

Show More

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energ...

Show More

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging ...

Show More

Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Dar...

Show More

So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——...

Show More

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

Show More

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

Show More

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

Picture of Deepak Chopra
Deepak ChopraThe Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives t...

Show More
Picture of Deepak Chopra
Deepak ChopraThe Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

I've always had good energy I've always had good health.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn i...

Show More

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political for...

Show More

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Wi...

Show More

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy...

Show More

Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy co...

Show More

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it wo...

Show More

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhaustin...

Show More

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence...

Show More

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wroug...

Show More

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words f...

Show More

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weap...

Show More

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an enterta...

Show More