quotes about Neighbor
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I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
-- Alexandra RoachSource : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
-- Anne EllisSource : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press
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The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.
-- Arlie Russell HochschildSource : "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
-- Arthur Baer -
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
-- Augustus Hare -
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
-- Augustus Hare -
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
-- Barbara Deming -
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Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
-- Billy Wilder -
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Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.
-- Brother LawrenceSource : Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool.
-- Clara Mamet -
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
-- Confucius -
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I can love the whole world except my neighbor.
-- Dada Dharmadhikari -
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
-- Daisy FuentesSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
-- Dan Buettner -
What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
-- David PlouffeSource : 'FOX News Sunday' with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 02, 2008.
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When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.
-- Debi Mazar -
It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it. But I lived And I am happy about that.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.
-- Diana TrillingSource : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
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My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
-- Doc Severinsen -
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If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
-- Douglas J. Feith -
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
-- Emily Post -
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
-- Euripides -
Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.
-- Faina Ranevskaya -
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Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.
-- Felder RushingSource : Felder Rushing (2011). “Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons”, p.36, Chelsea Green Publishing
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.
-- Frances Wright -
If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.
-- Francis Quarles -
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Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
-- Fred Rogers -
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
-- Frederic FarrarSource : Frederic William Farrar (1886). “Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America”
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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
-- George A. Romero -
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.
-- George Ade -
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
-- George McGovern -
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
-- George William RussellSource : "The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government". Book by George William Russell, 1921.
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Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.
-- Gladys Taber -
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[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.
-- Gustavo GutiérrezSource : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
-- Hamid Karzai -
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.
-- Hayley Williams -
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Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
-- Henry Adams -
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
-- Honore de Balzac -
You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.
-- Howard E. Koch -
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
-- Irving LaytonSource : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
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The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
-- Jacques Ellul -
God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.
-- James Richardson -
Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.
-- James Sheridan KnowlesSource : James Sheridan Knowles (1848). “The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections”, p.17
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Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.
-- Jean Charest -
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When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
-- Jennifer Pahlka -
A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.
-- Jennifer Pahlka -
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
-- Jill McCorkle -
Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.
-- Jim Rohn -
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Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
-- Jodi Kantor -
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.
-- John Dryden -
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Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.
-- John of Kronstadt -
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
-- John R. Allen -
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
-- Joseph HallSource : Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.18
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The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.
-- Karl Hess -
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
-- Karl Kraus -
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Hyun Joong hyung listens to music so loud that the neighbors are telling us to move out.
-- Kim Kyu-jong -
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
-- Kristin Cashore -
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi -
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
-- Larry David -
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When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors
-- Leah Busque -
Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.
-- Leo Baeck -
We love our Hohne Pool. We never have had a problem. My neighbor has one too. We both enjoy them very much, completely happy. We're both very pleased.
-- Linda Jones -
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo
-- Lita Ford -
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To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”
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The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
-- Louis C. K. -
It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
-- Mario Andretti -
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
-- Martin Luther -
We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
-- Martin Luther -
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
-- Marya Mannes -
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
-- Max Frisch -
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If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!
-- Max Lucado -
If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?
-- Michael Frost -
Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.
-- Michel Quoist -
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.
-- Miroslav VolfSource : Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.52, Zondervan
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To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss -
One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?
-- Nasreddin -
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No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
-- Nathaniel Macon -
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
-- Norman Douglas -
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
-- Norman Douglas -