We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
The more you see the less you know.
- 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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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
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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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
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
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
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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