Ambrus Zoli Quotes & Sayings

I was so gullible as a kid. — Michael Keaton

Before water generates steam, it must register two hundred and twelve degrees of heat. Two hundred degrees will not do it; two hundred and ten will not do it. The water must boil before it will generate enough steam to move an engine, to run a train. Lukewarm water will not run anything.
A great many people are trying to move their life trains with lukewarm water - or water that is almost boiling - and they are wondering why they are stalled, why they cannot get ahead. They are trying to run a boiler with two hundred or two hundred and ten degrees of heat, and they cannot understand why they do not get anywhere.
Lukewarmness in his work stands in the same relation to man's achievement as lukewarm water does to the locomotive boiler. No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings his force to his whole life, into it. — Orison Swett Marden

And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Later: Midnight. Just woke up with this thought; Maybe Simons right. Maybe there is a spirit that ejects from the body. Even stars, when they die eject hydrogen and helium from their bodies, which fly out in space into infinity. — Kelly Easton

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. — Brian May

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are. — Aaron D. O'Connell

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange. — Mark Z. Danielewski

The true act of heroism in Jesus on the cross and the emptying of the tomb is so that his people can return to the grace of doing life with God in a place, with love for our neighbors, and the freedom to enjoy God in the work, play, rest, and love that he gives us there. — Zack Eswine

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer ... I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please. — Brother Lawrence