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The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
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The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 see the less you know.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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 less you know, the more you believe.
- 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'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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
My concern is not whether God is on our side;
my greatest concern is to be on God's side,
for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
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
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
You always have everything you need, right here, right now.
Do you know how I know? You're still here.
If you hadn't always been given everything you ever needed,
you wouldn't be here.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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