Bob Goff Quotes

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

Bob Goff

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• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Big

• I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Dance
  • Politics

• In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Beginning
  • End

• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • College
  • Football
  • Learn

• My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Human
  • Pressure
  • Human being

• The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • You
  • Air
  • Problems

• Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Jump

• I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Impression

• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Challenges

• Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Taken
  • Architecture
  • Unity

• Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Remember
  • Fire
  • I Know

• Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Reason