Bob Goff Quotes
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
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The moods of the dark night skies are variously represented like soft black velvet, like the shining black of a scarab beetle, like the patina-ed surface of Indian-inked paper, soft blotting-paper soaked in dark blue ink for forty days, like a black cat's fur shining in moonlight...
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
