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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 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
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Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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.
-Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- 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 don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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
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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
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 feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- 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 religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
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
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
The world's mental.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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