"We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting."

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Fatih Birol

#Needs Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.”

Source : Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9
“My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.”

Source : "Telemundo's Cristina: 'My Hope Is to See Tom Cruise Jumping on My Couch'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 2, 2011.
“However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”
“Color is an intense experience on its own.”
“I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.”
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.”

Source : Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.302, Penguin
“I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.”
“I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering.”

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