238 Quotes by Bono

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.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Taste is the enemy of a good death.

To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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.

If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.