"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."

-- Russell Banks

#Writing Quotes #Paint Quotes #Draws Quotes

“Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible”
“Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.”

Source : Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”
“The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.”

Source : Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library
“We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.”

Source : "Heitkamp on health care: past vs. present" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.
“My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.”
“Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.”
“We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot”

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