"A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry."
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"Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it."
"The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment."
"Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth."
"Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial."
"To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth."
"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile."
"Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination."
"The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories."
"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."
"If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."
"The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them."
"There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel."
"Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule."
"I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work."