#be

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#also #am #aware #awareness #besides

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#built-in #competition #friends #i #men

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#between #every #forth #fugue #last

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#given #irish #jobs #majority #members

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#because #filled #really #smells #soda

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#beliefs #christians #cross #discreet #hope

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#before #christian #culture #destroy #ever

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#bed #completely #felt #give #go

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.' ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#compassion #concept #cultivated #culture #described

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#larger #life #much #old #part