Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all. — Joe Hill
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. — Suzanne Collins
Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both… — Suzanne Collins
Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our… — Daniel Handler
Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her… — Steig Larsson
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. — Khalil Gibran
Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my… — Suzanne Collins
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a… — David James Duncan
He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep… — Hans Christian Andersen
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his… — Benjamin Franklin
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of… — Edith Hamilton
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the… — Arthur W. Pink
We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight. — Lauren Oliver
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment,… — Vincent Starrett
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… — Pablo Neruda
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… — Suzanne Collins
The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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… — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — Bernard of Clairvaux
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
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. — Ernest Hemingway
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… — James de la Vega
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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