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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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
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
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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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