Bob Goff Quotes

I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

Bob Goff

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• The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Hair

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Ready

• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Action
  • Paris
  • Donors

• So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • War
  • Little Woman

• When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Mother

• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Happiness
  • Eye

• Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Speak
  • Artists
  • Explain

• In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Ruler
  • Sole
  • Pacifism

• Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Winter
  • Beast

• The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • America
  • Foundation

• I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Love is only one of many passions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see this over and over - in communities of people who are grappling with body issues, in the LGBT community.

  

  Marne Levine
  • Community
  • Inspiration
  • Interests

• The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Beauty
  • Destroy
  • Passions

• The president is the president. And every American, regardless of who you voted for, if you voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Donald Duck, I don't really care. We should all hope that the president does a good job, that he's surrounded by wise counselors, that he advances U.S. interests.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • American
  • President
  • Interests

• I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Interests
  • Passions
  • Formulas