#oil

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami. ↗

— Mario Batali

#any #boiled #cutting #cutting edge #eat

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#burns #cannot #endure #fed #flame

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#artist #culture #field #frequently #i

Golf is a good walk spoiled. ↗

— Mark Twain

#golf #good #spoiled #walk

Light is the task where many share the toil. ↗

— Homer

#many #share #task #toil #where

I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits.  ↗