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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
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The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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
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 think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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 more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
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
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
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
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
- Henry David Thoreau
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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