Coal Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

  Michio Kaku

  Oil, Soul, Devil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

  Elon Musk

  Glasses, Hot, Eating

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• The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Light, White, Black

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• My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Bridges, Skills, People

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Believe

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Two, Lunch

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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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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• Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coal Miners, Use, Dear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.102, Rajpal & Sons

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• I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

  John Gimlette

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

  Joan Crawford

  Grateful, Giving, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

  Jay Inslee

  Cities, Air, Atmosphere

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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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• Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Coal Miners, Hot

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