Top 167 Quotes & Sayings by Bono - Page 3

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. 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.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)