Mo Brooks Quotes

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Christ will rise on Easter day!

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

First fight. Then fiddle.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Use your head; cut off theirs.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

The music is in minors.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

Successful software always gets changed.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.