Mo Brooks Quotes

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips.God, it felt so good.So perfect, so right...It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof.

Maybe people do like wine. It's not as nice as just eating the grapes, but it's okay.

We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse.

Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."- CBI Agent Sam Rose

Faith removes fear from your mind by adding courage to your heart.

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.

They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast holes into an oppressive reality, and conceive limitless worlds.

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.

With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light.

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.

Why shine, when there's nothing to shine on?

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

He read vividly.

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

Writing is daydreaming with ink.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.