Bono quotes - page 8

It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly. (Bono)
Don't believe in the 60's,the Golden age of Pop.You glorify the past,when the Future dries up. View quote
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I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world. View quote
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I'm less unsure about taking political risks or social risks. View quote
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I presume the reason for this gathering is that all of us here - Muslims, Jews, Christians - all are searching our souls for how to better serve our family, our community, our nation, our God. I know I am. Searching, I mean. View quote
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I have spoke with the tongue of Angels,I have held the hand of The Devil.It was warm in the night,I was cold as a stone. View quote
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You say You'll give Me eyes in a moon of Blindness,a River in a time of dryness. View quote
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Teenage kids have no sense of mortality - yours or theirs. View quote
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I close this morning on ... very... thin... ice. This is a dangerous idea I've put on the table: my God vs. your God, their God vs. our God... vs. no God. It is very easy, in these times, to see religion as a force for division rather than unity. View quote
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war... God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. View quote
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So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity. (Bono)
That's not a cause, that's an emergency. View quote
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I watched the way it was The way it was when he was with us And I really don't mind Sleeping on the floor But I couldn't sleep after what I saw. View quote
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You say You want Diamonds on a Ring of Gold,Your Story to remain untold.Your Lovee not to go Cold. View quote
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And I know it aches And your heart it breaks And you can only take so much. View quote
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These last two albums mix up the personal and the political so that you don't know which one you're talking to. That's a kind of magic trick, and realizing that of course all the problems that we find in the exterior world are just manifestations of what we, you know, what we hold inside of us, in our interior worlds. View quote
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We love the crackle and the hustle, we love the spirit that gives the finger to fate, the spirit that says there's no hurdle we can't clear and no problem we can't fix. View quote
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See the stone set in your eyes,see the thorn twist in your side.I wait for you. View quote
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I don't mind being arrested for putting on a free concert, but I don't want to be arrested for being a vandal. I am a vandal and I do regret what I did. I really do regret it. It was dumb. View quote
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But they're quite obviously raving lunatics. Suddenly you go, what's this? And you change the channel. There's another one. View quote
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Experiment more and don't let people box you in. There is nothing you can't put on your canvas if it is part of your life. (Bono)
Say "no more!" No more! No more! Wipe your tears away! View quote
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The Glass is cut,The Bottle run dry.Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night. View quote
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I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. View quote
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I want to run,I want to hide,I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.I want to reach out and touch the plains,Where the streets have no names. View quote
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