Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
Bono
U2
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
E. L. Konigsburg
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
Laura Dern
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
Larry Hagman
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
Rachel McAdams
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
Karen Salmansohn
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
Barton Gellman
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
Vijay Sethupathi
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
Oliver North
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
Samuel L. Jackson
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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
Ad Reinhardt
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
Albert Einstein
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Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
Jeanne Calment
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The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
Bono
U2
