Quotes About Energy

As Lincoln later told a friend, "I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!

The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

Suddenly Dotty jumped up and down, looking as if she desperately needed a wee, but in actual fact she was just overexcited.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; it's wholeheartedness.

Only those who put more energy into self-pity than into paying attention are truly marooned.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

At your age, life is full of possibilities. But as the years pass, those possibilities vanish, one by one, like doors closing in a hallway. You feel time slip by, and your energy slip away. One day, you realize you're too old to be a famous musician, or change careers, or have more children. And each of those closed doors represents a regret. As you get older, well, those regrets come to define you.

Love is not always a two-way street, sometimes you pour your energy into something that never gives back. Like people who keep lizards as pets. Is that worse than being alone, or without purpose?

the jet stream undulating over us like an angry snake god.

Muscles require a constant source of energy just to maintain their mass, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn.

Now, here's the key thing you need to know about mitochondria: Like any other sort of engine, they generate energy, but they also generate waste. However, unlike your car engine, which turns gasoline into energy while creating smog, the mitochondria turn food into energy while creating something called free radicals.

Within every cell in your body is a posse of organelles (or miniature organs) called mitochondria

The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness.

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.