Mo Brooks Quotes

When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldnt quit, and I havent had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Writing is a delicious agony.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.