Mo Brooks Quotes

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

I don't have to accept what you think I should look like and I do not accept what you think I should look like.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

Fate and your dreams can collide

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.