To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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
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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
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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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
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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- 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
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
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
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
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