Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

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• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
  • Joy

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Nice

• That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Eternity

• Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
  • Life
  • Women
  • Family

• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Nice

• I didn't have the courage to let myself think or dream of acting because I come from Luxembourg - it's a very small country, and I think it's a place you need to get away from to see how big the world is and what's possible.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

  

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