Top 37 Joseph O Connor Quotes
#1. I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
Joseph O'Connor
#2. I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.
Adam Croasdell
#3. Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
John Joseph O'Connor
#4. Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.
Ruth Whitman
#5. In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.
Noam Chomsky
#6. We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.
Joseph O'Connor
#7. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.
Joseph O'Connor
#8. A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.
Marina Warner
#10. I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
Erik Satie
#11. Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
Joseph O'Connor
#13. How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.
Joseph O'Connor
#15. Just as easy as it was to get, just as easy as it is to lose. I've learned that.
Khali Raymond
#16. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.
Joseph O'Connor
#17. But as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.
Joseph O'Connor
#18. Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
Joseph O'Connor
#19. It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.
Joseph O'Connor
#20. Forever - is composed of Nows - / 'Tis not a different time - / Except for Infiniteness - / And Latitude of Home - / From this - experienced Here - / Remove the Dates - to These - / Let Months dissolve in further Months - / And Years - exhale in Years -
Emily Dickinson
#21. Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
Joseph O'Connor
#22. Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Joseph O'Connor
#24. It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
Joseph O'Connor
#25. The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist
John Joseph O'Connor
#26. I do not know her as you do, but I have shared each step of this journey with her, watched her fight for her life, and held her each night while she slept. I cannot help but care for her.
And suddenly Connor was glad Joseph had chosen to sleep in the loft.
Pamela Clare
#27. The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.
Joseph O'Connor
#28. Joseph stood, his gaze traveling over Connor's clean-shaven face and hairless chest, his lips curving in a grin. What's this? The Cub is not so furry.
Pamela Clare
#29. _I_ boil it." Joseph entered last, closing the door behind them. "Last time, you burnt it."
Connor glared at Joseph. "We were attacked! What would you have me tell the Abenaki? 'I cannae fight just now. I'm makin' candy. Would you like a wee taste?
Pamela Clare
#30. I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
Alison Jackson
#31. it was a gift to her, and gifts given freely are a bit less likely to turn bad on you. It's
T. Kingfisher
#32. They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.
Joseph O'Connor
#33. The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
Aristotle.
#34. The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.
Joseph O'Connor
#35. Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.
Joseph O'Connor
#36. (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
Joseph O'Connor
#37. There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
Joseph O'Connor
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