Mo Brooks Quotes

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

I can't not put humor in a book.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.