7 Quotes by James O'Brien

The people down there were thankful. It put a light back in their eyes,

That way we'll be able to set aside some money to purchase land when it becomes available.

With only boat traffic possible to the community, it would be a complex process.

That's an awful lot of money, but anytime the town can purchase land, I have to say I'm for it. The town needs to do some land banking.

The cultural event being threatened in this case was Christmas, that most Anglo-Saxon of festivals whereby the birth of a Jewish baby in a Middle Eastern stable two thousand years ago is commemorated.

Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognise the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.

The reason why conversations like this are simultaneously so frustrating and revealing is that people like him have lost the desire to question what they are being told. Their bespoke, unchallenged diet of ‘news’, augmented we now know by Facebook algorithms and deliberately fake stories, is so unvaried that the possibility that it might be largely bogus is never entertained.