“My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends, and so I was brought up with the idea that there are many realms of being all around us. So that prepared me for Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism with all its talk of different realms and dimensions of being.” IdeasDifferentMotherHouseBuddhismPreparedVariousNeighborMediumsRealmsDimensionsTibetanTibetan Buddhism Author:Tenzin Palmo
“[I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great sense of community. They cared about their neighbors. And those values, I think, have stood me well.” PeopleThinkingWellsDreamBigsValuesCommunityAchieveWestRaisedNeighborTexasWest Texas Author:George W. Bush
“I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveI BelieveRepublicanMy FriendsDemocraticNeighborEstablishmentBetrayedMisguided Author:Tucker Carlson
“Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.” PeopleLooksRealProblemBigsAbleCertainGivenCommonAudienceGroupsWeekPossibilityBiggerDisappearNeighborProjectionMotion Pictures Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.” WorldNeedsIdeasAmericaGoneOne ThingNeighborRuinsDiscussionGone Away Author:Alison Pill
“When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.” WellsBigsHouseBoysWatchesHappeningsMy FriendsNeighborIceSettlingValleysAfternoonCreamIce CreamJuiceGrapesEscapingBarbara Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.” PeopleThinkingShouldEconomySuccessfulGrowingNeighborRussiaEmployedGood Relationship Author:Barack Obama
“Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.” I CanPerspectiveNeighborRussia Author:Angela Merkel
“That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.” StatesSidesSecurityStandingDemocraticIsraelNeighborPeace And Security Author:John F. Kerry
“I was two years old when I told my mom I was going to be in a band when I grew up, and I was four years old when I started my first band with my neighbors. Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.” YearsFirstsTwoFourGrewMomBandGrew UpMy MomNeighborTwo YearsFour YearsTwo Year Olds Author:Tim Kinsella
“The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.” IfsMenGivingShouldDoeTwoChurchLove YouHe ManAmountMessagesValuableNeighborEnormousCarrieCoatsLove Your NeighborLove Your Neighbor As Yourself Author:Anna Quindlen
“My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors.” WishIsraelNeighborMy Wish Author:Jimmy Carter
“We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where the Russians and the Iranians and the neighbors - all of them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, a very complicated brew - that you have to bring them together and they can find agreement. That's the fundamental premise of the Geneva Communique that you will have, by mutual consent, a process of transition.” PeopleTogetherProcessFundamentalsComplicatedNeighborAgreementMutualTransitionSyriaConsentPremisesSaudisLegitimacyGeneva Author:John F. Kerry
“One thing is for sure - if you are wearing a niqab, you will never, ever find a job. You will never, ever make friends, German friends or neighbors friends. So this is obviously something that is making integration impossible.” IfsJobsImpossibleOne ThingNeighborIntegrationNeighbors FriendsNiqab Author:Jens Spahn
“How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.” BalanceNeighbor Book:The Following of Christ Source: The Following of Christ
“Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.” KnowsKindRealSocialUnderstandingProgressEmpathyConcernProtectionNeighborCirclesIndifferenceBlindnessCountrymenSocial ProgressOvertaking Author:Paul Ryan
“As for the workers' movement, I find that I reach workers more easily as neighbors than I do standing outside the factory despairingly giving out a leaflet telling them to take over, say the Ford plant.” GivingMovementStandingPlantWorkersNeighborFactoriesStanding Out Author:Murray Bookchin
“I don't understand what the president's [Donald Trump] position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and [Vladimir] Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.” WorldI CanPresidentMilitaryDangerPositionTrumpNeighborCoreRussiaObjectivesWorld HistoryPutinAlliancesNatoGreatest Military Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” MenInspirationalMadeTogetherEconomicFriendsEconomicsNeighborPartnersAlliesGeographyInternational RelationsFunny FriendshipNeighbors And FriendsNeighbors FriendsGeography TeachersGeography And History Author:John F. Kennedy
“You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan. Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia. And China is not keen that the U.S. should be so close to its borders over a long period of time. Certainly, if the U.S. is going to be there for a long time, it's going to exacerbate regional tensions.” IfsShouldTryingLongBecomingPeriodsLong TimeIntentionChinaNeighborRussiaNervousPermanentBordersTensionIranAfghanistanSuspicionAsiaLong Periods Of TimeCentral Asia Author:Ahmed Rashid
“When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.” HandsFormAsksAudienceMembersConnectedNeighborDisabilityPublic SpeakingFamily Members Author:Jay Ruderman
“I don`t think it`s crazy to think Kim Jong-un would use his weapons or certainly to use the weapons to try to get his, get his neighbors to do something they don`t want to do. I mean, he is not above blackmail.” ThinkingWantTryingMeanUseCrazyWeaponsNeighborKimBlackmail Author:Christopher R. Hill
“Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.” PeopleFirstsWellsWarCountrySeriousFirst TimeKillingCommittedNeighborRussiaControlledTerritoryAggressionTroopsUkraineEuropean CountriesSerious Business Author:Daniel Fried
“I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.” ThinkingSelfCountryDoneTodayTogetherFormThreeStrongCommunityFiveFourDevelopmentConceptsTraditionLaborNeighborLocalsTraditionalFarmsCooperationIrelandOther CountriesSolidarityEquipmentSelf DevelopmentFamily LifeGet TogetherExchangingLocal Community Author:Mary Robinson
“Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with our country would pay attention to who our regional neighbors are. It is not at all fair to ask a country to build relations with Burma but not take into account the situation in China. There is no way to think that taking the Chinese situation into consideration shows a disregard for Burma.” ThinkingWayCountryShowsAsksNaturalPayAttentionSituationFairsAccountsIndiaRelationSouthChinaEastNeighborOur CountryChinesePay AttentionConsiderationAsiaDisregardDiplomaticBurmaEast AsiaDiplomatic Relations Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.” PeopleCountryMatterHandsTogetherCommunityUnitedGriefRaceBloodNeighborTiesOur TimeSeptemberWoundedOur LoveSeptember 11EthnicityAmerican FamilySeptember 11thWhere We Came Author:Barack Obama
“I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryCoupleTerribleNeighborConclusionDestroyedDisagreeDictatorSaddamHussein Author:Colin Powell
“I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.” KindWishDoorsEdgesNeighborFortunateWildlifeCanyonsBack DoorsRattlesnakes Author:Paul Saffo
“The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.” LongNeighborChineseBother Author:George Friedman
“Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.” PeopleNeedsRunningNextPayDoorsTaxesBenefitsSittingNeighborFedsCoalitionsOwn BusinessFed UpNext Door NeighborsMoney Wasted Author:George Osborne
“We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.” PeopleTryingTurnsGroupsNeighbor Author:Bill Maher
“The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.” PeopleDifferentStatesWholeBigsRunningLanguageSidesNumbersTalkingImpossibleHabitOrdinaryBritishNeighborKingdomsDestroyedAgain And AgainUnitsStrainNeighbourMassacresDifferent Languages Author:Chinua Achebe
“For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindMadeSometimesStoriesWould BeWantedReadingNextInterestingEffortStageTraditionExcitingTownsWho You AreNeighborRelatedComing OutAncestorLiteracyReading And WritingOur TownOral Tradition Author:Chinua Achebe
“Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.” WantUseSmartEnvyNeighborGenerous Author:Dar Williams
“Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.” WorldWantImportantCausesAwarenessCitizensHappeningsNeighborGlobal CitizenShrinking Author:Freida Pinto
“I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanRealizingBrotherNeighborUnclesStereotypeAuntHivMetaphoricalSufferersAunts And Uncles Author:Kwame Dawes
“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.” PeopleThinkingCountryAnimalMissingBuildingGardenTraditionNeighborHonestlyCraving Author:Novella Carpenter
“Debating the concept of race does not mean that I in any way regard this as a quarrel between neighbors over where they come from. I have perhaps said enough when I said the alternative to assimilation is that immigrant groups form their own state or go away for lack of acceptance. Why should it be less serious if quarrels and dissensions are socially related? After all, the quarrels and dissensions between Russia and America are also not racial. And yet they seem to me extremely dangerous.” MeanEnoughDangerousAcceptanceSeriousNeighborGoing AwayAssimilation Author:Norbert Elias
“Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.” WorldWritingKindUnderstandingBrainViolenceTroubleInsightNeighborFind Me Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.” PeopleWritingKindTogetherChoicesStruggleFinancialComplicatedNeighborLifestyleHungryGenerosityContrast Author:Adrian Matejka
“God is a compass. God is not about who you're sleeping with or, I mean, I don't care about that. It's about loving your neighbor. It's about living a life that's bigger than yourself. As time goes on, societies have a tendency to put themselves on the throne, and that leads to self-absorption and that leads to "life is all about me." And there's not a compass that sends you in a direction where life can't be just about you.” MeanCareSleepNeighborCompassLoving You Author:John Kasich
“When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.” SometimesChristianUnderstandingBuildingDrugJewNeighborDialogueDealerGraffiti Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.” WorldGivingEyeCommunitySocial MediaNeighborOne You Love Author:Bruce Feiler
“We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.” MeanCountryProblemSchoolEnergyWaterDivineCorruptionNeighborPeacefulBest Country Author:Jamie Dimon
“I just think society, our culture and our world would be better off if we just loved God and loved our neighbor and did what was right. You know, our founding fathers... They all were godly men. Someone told me one time, "Yeah, but they made mistakes." I said, "So have we. We've all made mistakes." I said, "But they founded the greatest nation on earth and we didn't, and that's the difference right there."” ThinkingMenWorldEarthCultureFatherMistakeNeighborGodlyMade A MistakeOur Founding Fathers Author:Phil Robertson
“The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would say about someone who doesn't live in a democracy. Well, if democracy is the highest form of human potential, then it can't be true for us and not for them. But, the practical case is democracies don't invade their neighbors. Democracies don't traffic in child soldiers. Democracies don't harbor terrorists as a state policy. So there's a reason to have more democratic states.” PeopleChildrenReasonMoralDemocracyPolicyDemocraticSoldierNeighborTerroristBeing TrueNot ReadyHuman Potential Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link up with people they enjoyed, and detach and move away from people they did not. Increasing choice is a way to foster fulfillment in people's lives. I choose my friends and I'd prefer to choose my neighbors too.” PeopleMovingChoicesCommunityOceanNeighborFulfillmentEmpowered Author:Joe Quirk
“During the Month of Ramadan, you should be more careful of the words that you speak to your wife, to your children, to your neighbors, in the councils that you are a part of. That counsel should always be that I want for my brother what I want for myself.” ChildrenSpeakWifeBrotherOur ChildrenCarefulNeighborYour ChildrenMy Brother Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Each of us is our own story, but none of us is only our own story. The arc of my own personal story is inexplicably and intrinsically linked to the story of my parents and the story of my neighbor and the story of the kid that I met one time. All of us are linked in ways that we don't always see. We are never simply ourselves.” KidsParentNeighbor Author:Kelly Barnhill
“We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.” FightingDestinyNeighborOur FutureOur Destiny Author:Angela Merkel