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As a rock star, I have two instincts,
by Bono

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

 

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2

The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you tried to give rock and roll another name,
you might call it "Chuck Berry."
- John Lennon

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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