Stamps Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

  Tobsha Learner

  Fire, Flames, Sparks

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

  Aden Young

  Character, Way, Moral

  "The GQ+A: 'Rectify' Star Aden Young Doesn't Want To Know If He's Innocent Or Guilty". Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. April 22, 2013.

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• The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

  Virginia Postrel

  Impulse, Hard, Adornment

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• I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

  Kurt Voss

  Independent, Twenties, Dollars

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

  Rolf Potts

  Country, Travel, Home

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• In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

  Augustus William Hare

  Individuality, Peer Pressure, Life Is

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

  Nikky Finney

  Watches, Alphabet, Film

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• I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Thinking

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Covenant, Approval

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Rights, Religion

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• Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eternity, Lord, Eyeballs

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• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Pursuit Of Happiness, Unique

  "The universe is a green dragon". Book by Brian Swimme, www.context.org. 1984.

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.

  Edgar Cayce

  Angel, Men, Creative

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

  George Washington

  Country, Ambition, Views

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.63

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• It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Tyrants

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part II: "Freedom and the Law". Chapter 9: "Coercion and the State", 1960.

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Thinking

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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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