Coal Quotes - Page 14

• I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Pits, Alive, Communism

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

  142 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Yellow, White

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

  Al Gore

  Science, Oil, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Oil, Our World

  "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians

  Louis of Granada

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

  5 Copy quote

• Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Basketball, Jobs

  9 Copy quote

• If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.

  Steven Chu

  Technology, Thinking, Air

  5 Copy quote

• The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Forgiveness, Heart, Hatred

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.443, Baker Books

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

  11 Copy quote

• Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

  Van Jones

  Marketing, Burning, Clean

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.12, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

  Van Jones

  Oil, People, Fuel

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

  James Hansen

  Air, Carbon Emissions, Long

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Climate Change, Planets

  4 Copy quote

• Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.

  Ken Hendricks

  Leadership, Believe, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  "Earth's Aura". Book by Louise B. Young, 1977.

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walking on rocks, hurts. Walking on glass, cuts. Walking on hot coals, burns. Walking on someones heart, kills.

  Francisco Garcia

  Hurt, Heart, Cutting

  4 Copy quote

• We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Years, Realizing

  George W. Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 8, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains.

  Aldo Leopold

  Dog, Moving, Heart

  5 Copy quote

• Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

  Jay Baer

  Media, Social, Canaries

  11 Copy quote

• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

  110 Copy quote

• The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

  Ayya Khema

  Hands, Trying, Hot

  Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Coal Miners, Perfect

  4 Copy quote

• The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

  Rudolf Diesel

  Oil, Important, Biofuels

  90 Copy quote

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  Sam Rockwell

  Daughter, Mother, Coal Miners

  "Sam Rockwell on Outsiders, Mischa Barton and Their Lost Indie Gem Lawn Dogs" by Michael Adams, movieline.com. August 28, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Fighting, Dust, Body

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source