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Quotes About Energy

Twenty-two guys chasing a ball and a whole crowd screaming their heads off. It was an absurd ritual,
~ Derek Smith
Other double binds are false. This is one of the latter. There is an unspoken premise of the argument in favor of wind turbines: that harvesting energy is more important than birds and bats. That some sacrifices (billions of sacrifices, in this case) are justifiable to provide industrial humans with energy. This is, of course, the usual human supremacist assumption. The only way out of a double bind is to smash it. That's what we must do.
~ Derrick Jensen
And there is also this fact: The only people who want a nuclear power plant, or a solar panel, or a wind turbine, are people who demand industrial levels of energy. Those levels are needed for a single purpose: the wholesale conversion of the living to the dead, the longest war ever. And our choice is now very stark: Stand with the living or go down with the dead.
~ Derrick Jensen
Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks
~ DESCARTES
Nature triumphs ultimately. The triumph is impersonal, nonjudgmental. Nature kills everybody, not just the "bad." To call the goddess "Mother" is to acknowledge only one half of her personality. She is also a "killer." She is the source of joy and sorrow, of hope and despair, life and death. Nature (prakriti), delusion (maya), energy (shakti)—she is the world we react to.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.
~ Dewitt Jones
Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss
~ Diablo Cody
Dwindling energy is one of the most boring things about being old. From time to time you get a day when it seems to be restored, and you can't help feeling that you are 'back to normal', but it never lasts. You just have to resign yourself to doing less--or rather, taking more breaks than you used to in whatever you are doing. In my case I fear that what I most often do less of is my duty towards my companion rather than indulgence of my private inclinations.
~ Diana Athill
and as for toddlers, I didn't go so far as to blame them for being what they were, but I did feel that they were tedious to have around except in very small doses.
~ Diana Athill
Jump, by Kris Kross, on whether there is jumping during the chorus and for how long.
~ Diana Evans
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
~ Diane Ackerman
am positioned here in tranquility, allowing the waxing energy of the Moon to embrace me and my desire. That aspiration is . . . (state your desire). I am grateful for what I have, such as . . . (state that for which you are grateful, even if it is only one thing). Allow this to come to be.
~ Diane Ahlquist
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
~ Diane Cilento
As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels the weather patterns on Earth, where your negative thoughts go out and gather negative energy, bringing the negativity back to you on its return trip. So
~ Dianne Robbins
THE PENDULUM OF POLITICS is always swinging. Republicans gain seats, Democrats win them back, and the struggle continues. The one thing that seems inevitable no matter the party in office is the continued growth of government. Occasionally, however, a fresh jolt of conservative energy interrupts that growth.
~ Dick Armey
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
~ Dick Vertleib
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.
~ Dietrich Mateschitz
When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice.
~ Dilgo Khyentse
If the last thing a man has to hold on to is his sense of pride and accompanying dignity, then more likely than not he will expend every last trace of energy doing so.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
The occultist does not try to dominate Nature, but to bring himself into harmony with these great Cosmic Forces, and work with them.
~ Dion Fortune
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,
~ Dion Fortune
Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality.
~ Dion Fortune
In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.
~ Dion Fortune
After all, the human machine is an internal combustion engine running on spirit.
~ Dion Fortune