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To be one, to be united is a great thing.
by Bono

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

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Quotes by Bono

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

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

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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

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

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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 Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

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

One Quotes and Sayings

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

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