28 Quotes by Joseph O'Connor

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

If you go through the world looking for excellence, you will find excellence. If you go through the world looking for problems you will find problems. Or as the Arabic saying puts it, “What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not”.

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.

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.

People who mind read usually feel they are right, but this does not guarantee they are. Why guess when you can ask?