Coal quotes
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"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
"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."
"Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire."
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job"
"A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job."
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"The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals."
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
"No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris."
"Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond."
"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."
"Even coal shimmers in the light"
"It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves."
"I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard."
"Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold."
"Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
"Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out."
"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."
"You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours."
"The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment."
"Coal is a portable climate."
"Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals."
"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."
"Coal miners don't get coal miners' block."
"Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants."
"Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time"
