Coal Quotes - Page 17

• Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fire, Offering, Flames

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

  Barbara Demick

  Night, Dust, Korea

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• Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Hero, School, Boys

  "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.

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• Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

  Jeff Goodell

  United States, Half, Fuel

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• I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.

  Todd Snider

  Men, Thinking, Attention

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• If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Done, Construction

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• A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Pressure, Jewelry, Made

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Oil

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• We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

  Richard Branson

  Fuel, Fossils, Dependence

  "Virgin pledges $3bn to combat global warming" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2006.

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• In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Order, Ifs And

  "Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

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• A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.

  Michael O'Leary

  Lying, Warrior, Talking

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.

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• Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Flames, Inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.105, Penguin

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• In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Reality, Oil

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Spring, Night, Air

  "Fictional character: Eliza Doolittle". "My Fair Lady", 1964.

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• If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Sweet, Hands

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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• No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Regret, Church

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• I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Oil, Natural

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.cbsnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  People, Want, Bigs

  "Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes Attack Each Other On Coal" by Robert Farley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

  Andy Gray

  Country, Player, Hot

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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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• I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

  Michael Caine

  Coal Miners, Actors, Photographer

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• Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, Talking, Humanity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities...

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Jobs, Wind, Political

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

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