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To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
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Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
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I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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
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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- 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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
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
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
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