Bono quotes - page 9

It is fair to say that we overreacted a bit. (Bono)
History, like God, is watching what we do. View quote
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It is such an important idea, Jubilee, that Jesus begins his ministry with this. View quote
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Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths. View quote
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I don't believe the Devil,I don't believe his book,but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up. View quote
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I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. View quote
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The scale of the suffering and the scope of the commitment they often numb us into a kind of indifference. Wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa is like wishing that gravity didn't make things so damn heavy. We can wish it, but what the hell can we do about it? Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem - corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here - but the ones we can we must. View quote
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You say you want diamonds on a ring of Gold,You say you want your story to remain untold.But all the promise we made from the Cradle to the Grave,When All I want is You. View quote
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Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day. View quote
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I remember John singing "Oh My Love." It's like a little hymn. It's certainly a prayer of some kind - even if he was an atheist. View quote
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I've started to see this community as a real resource in America. I have described them as "narrow-minded idealists." If you can widen the aperture of that idealism, these people want to change the world. They want their lives to have meaning. (Bono)
In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. View quote
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One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. View quote
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I wait, without you With or without you, with or without you. View quote
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The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, lets take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of. View quote
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See them burning crosses, see the flames get higher and higher. View quote
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I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance. View quote
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You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion. View quote
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Its no secret that a Conscience can sometimes be a Pest, Its no Secret that Ambition bites the Nails of Success. View quote
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It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb. View quote
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Can you hear me when I sing? You're the reason I sing. You're the reason the opera is in me Well, hey now Still got to let you know A house just don't make a home Don't leave me here alone. (Bono)
A man will rise, a man will fall. From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall. View quote
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We're one but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other. View quote
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There's many lost but, tell me, who has won? View quote
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We're gonna make it all the way to the light, but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight. View quote
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