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Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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 think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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 right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- 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
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
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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 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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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 colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
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'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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'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
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
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