"When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh."

-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.”
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.”
“Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.”
“How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life.”

Source : Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”
“The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.”

Source : Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing
“I don't have television so I don't watch TV.”

Source : "Meet The Vampire Diaries Actor Paul Wesley". www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.
“Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam

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