"I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone."

-- Matthew McConaughey

#Thinking Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Withdrawal Quotes

“We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.”

Source : Thomas Andrews (1889). “The Scientific Papers of the Late Thomas Andrews ...”
“They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.”
“Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.”
“If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.”
“If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.”
“The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.
“I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.”

Source : Billy Graham (2010). “WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.”

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