"If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention."

-- Paul Davies

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.”

Source : Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).”

Source : "Ask the Rabbis // How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?". www.momentmag.com. February 6, 2013.
“I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.”
“But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?”
“You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.”
“Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.”
“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

Source : "The war on drugs and alcohol is a war against human nature" by Lewis Lapham, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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