Mo Brooks Quotes
I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.