Bob Goff Quotes

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

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• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Technology
  • New
  • Jump

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Woman
  • Pleasure
  • Bed

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Plan

• When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Emotions

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• And yet it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Moves

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

• The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Men
  • Color
  • Treat

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Understand

• Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Fall
  • Wall

• I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Romantic

• God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • God
  • Limitations
  • Himself

• I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Think
  • Need