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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
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You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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 stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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
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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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 don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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
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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- 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
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
Heroes do what the rest of us would do,
if only we had the courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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