Stamping Quotes

#1. The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

William S. Burroughs

#2. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

#3. Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

John Lawson

#4. Friendship isn't something we passively receive. Friendship is something we actively do. It's a gift we offer for free, not a demand we make with a stamping foot.

Lisa-Jo Baker

#5. In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

Anita Loos

#6. Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Gary Hamel

#7. Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect ... " Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

Monique Wittig

#9. He controlled her with each thrust, damn near stamping his name on her privates-in all caps, bolded, so she'd never forget who it belonged to.

Delaney Diamond

#10. I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

Brian Chippendale

#11. When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we're stamping out the artist that lives within.

Seth Godin

#12. I dreamed today of bone-white horses, stamping and nuzzling in the bright sunshine, and of orange poppies which swayed and danced in the spring wind.

(Do not look back.)

Neil Gaiman

#13. Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

W. Edwards Deming

#14. You better be able to turn yourself off if you think you're coming back into my house," she said. The bird gave her another dubious look before stamping one foot and the flames disappeared leaving long gold and red feathers.
"Oh," Anya said embarrassed. "I suppose you can.

Amy Kuivalainen

#15. He followed, stamping angrily through the disused lots and inner-city disaster areas of his subconscious.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

Warren Ellis

#17. Life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; ... love wasn't enough.

Nicholas Sparks

#18. All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.

Helene Hanff

#19. She did not know many beautiful animals that had sweet tempers, except perhaps butterflies. Then again, there wasn't enough to a butterfly to properly be called a temper. That options did an angry butterfly have, anyway? Stamping eylashed-sized feet? Flapping its wings in a sarcastic manner?

T. Kingfisher

#20. The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

Ethel Waters

#21. ... as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal- a hacked one.

Herman Melville

#22. Is your leg asleep again?" Troy said. "I'm worried about your circulation."

"It's fine," Elena said, stamping her foot.

She'd only been sitting for two hours, but she was so bored she could hardly stand it. She could literally hardly stand; even her blood vessels were bored.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Johnathan Jena

#24. In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.

Tyne Daly

#25. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

Pierre Bourdieu

#26. It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.

Laini Taylor

#27. I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

Alan Curbishley

#28. Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Ben Hecht

#29. Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Thomas Aquinas

#30. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#31. They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts.

Roddy Doyle

#32. I can remember neing in high school, walking through Central Park on a chilly day, and the sound of stamping on the crispness of autumn leaves would make me think of the sensation of my head cracking open. And I would get really scared and run all the way home, running for cover.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#33. If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

Dean Cavanagh

#34. The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.

Terry Pratchett

#35. I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Fred Perry

#36. Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality
all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Nelson Mandela

#37. Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

Edwin A. Abbott

#38. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.

George Orwell

#39. The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.

Theodore Dalrymple

#40. Try and understand his problem," insisted Ford. "Here he is, poor lad, his entire life's work is stamping around, throwing people off spaceships ... " "And shouting," added the guard.

Douglas Adams

#41. Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!

Charles Dickens

#42. Applying deep insight and rubber stamping are such counter-propositions.

Pearl Zhu

#43. So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.

Herman Melville

#44. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste

Paul Gibbons

#45. Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

Chris Matthews

#46. CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Marcus Buckingham

#47. Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams - dreams, do you understand - come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

C.S. Lewis

#48. The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Timothy Keller

#49. As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

Richard Whately

#50. Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

Theodore Roosevelt