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The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
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I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
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To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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 love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- 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
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
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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very 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
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 Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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