"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."

-- Alva Myrdal

#Civilization Quotes #People Quotes #Target Quotes

“Relationships are like drugs. They either kill you or give you the best feeling of your life.”
“I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.”

Source : Interview with Sarah, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.
“Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.”

Source : "Satisfy Your Legal Needs Fast in This Zoom-Zoom World" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.
“God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.”
“Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.”

Source : "Women in Design". Interview with Mayer Rus, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.
“The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.2, MIT Press
“I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.”
“The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.”

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