Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

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

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Economy

• Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • World
  • Amazing

• We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • History
  • Look
  • Club

• I have the backbone of an eel.

  

  Betty White

• I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Ambition

• If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Exercise

• I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

  

  Brad Holland
  • Remember

• The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

  

  John Battelle
  • World
  • Together
  • Culture

• Does the right hon. Lady understand-if she does not yet understand she soon will-that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?

  

  Enoch Powell
  • She
  • Fall

• In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Life
  • Live
  • Respect

• A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • American
  • Society

• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

  

  Jimmy Doolittle
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Military

• To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

  

  Heraclitus
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • All Things

• At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

  

  Eva Green
  • Human
  • Choose
  • Heartbeat

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Opinion
  • Spirits
  • Contradiction

• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Heart
  • Air
  • Listening

• It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Space
  • Dying
  • Distance

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

  

  Bono U2
  • Contradiction
  • Centre
  • Smack