Coal Quotes - Page 13

• I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.

  Pablo Neruda

  Past, Vegetables, Ivory

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Anger

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Adversity, Flames

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• The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Long, Soul

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Toads

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Echoes, Dying

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• Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

  James de la Vega

  Morning, Business, Tears

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• Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
  His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
  The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
  The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
  And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Blow, Men

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• The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Real, Oil, Environmental

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• The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, Years, Wind

  "GRANTHAM: The Great American Shale Boom Is A Dangerous Waste Of Time And Money" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Revenge, Hot, Grudge

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• The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.’

  Shelley Moore Capito

  President, Plant, Power Plants

  "Capito, Tennant Hit the W.Va. Airwaves With Dueling Ads" by Adam O'Neal, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 30, 2014.

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• For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.

  Carl Ludwig

  Life, Science, Self

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• When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Jobs, Kentucky, Priorities

  "With carbon limits, Obama creates drama for Democrats" By Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2014.

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• I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

  Jim Renacci

  Thinking, Coal Miners, Grandfather

  "Exclusive Interview with Jim Renacci, GOP Candidate in OH-16". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Roots, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

  Deval Patrick

  Two, Years, Next

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• Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Children, Oil, Investing

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• Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

  George Monbiot

  People, Nuclear, Burning

  "Japan nuclear crisis should not carry weight in atomic energy debate" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

  Tony Benn

  Government, Needs, Phases

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