#me

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#been #i #me #people #runner

From caring comes courage. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#caring #comes

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. ↗

— Bono

#allowed #anywhere #because #commitment #concern

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. ↗

— Bono

#across #awe #christ #combination #cross

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. ↗

— Bono

#africa #continent #disease #extreme #extreme poverty

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#country #disgrace #fame #fearing #general

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars. ↗

— Bono

#know #like #listened #mad #me

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#cloud #labour #like #loads #overcome

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that. ↗

— Bono

#character #i #i am #little #recognize