Mo Brooks Quotes

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.

I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

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

A clever trick does not a concept make.

He said that the music—its order and precision—helped him find the patterns in things—the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

A divorce is much like a ten-car pile up. It affects not just two drivers but a whole slew of perimeter vehicles that get caught in the chaos. Not even innocent bystanders come out unscathed.

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

It's sad to see the devil cry.

Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.

Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load.

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

It is brave to be involved.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

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.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

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

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.

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.