Stamps Quotes

• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Jobs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Positive, Congratulations

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

  Spike Lee

  People, Needs, Approval

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• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

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• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Swag, Design

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Coinage Bill, March 03, 1926.

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

  Eudora Welty

  Learning, Childhood, Pulse

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, what acts she should perform on which date and what she should always or never do or say or want; I eavesdrop on women in cafes while they reel off lists of which jobs a man is allowed, which cars, which labels, which flowers and restaurants and gemstones get the stamp of approval, and I want to shout, Are you people out of your tiny minds?

  Tana French

  Jobs, Flower, Blow

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive, legislative, judicial branches) in the hands of an organization - the Republican Party - dedicated to escalating the race to disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Party

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, President, American History

  "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011 May 13, 2011.

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• I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

  Hilary Mantel

  Lying, Book, School

  "Author, author: I once stole a book ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  School, Literature, Students

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Thinking

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Editing, Effort

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Jobs, Successful

  "Gingrich, Dionne, Noonan, Halperin, Cooper, Bai". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Kindness, Taken

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.478, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Character, Climate, Anomalies

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.51, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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