Neighbours Quotes

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

Home, Fire, Find

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling

Nature, Yourself, Trouble

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler

Best, Live, Words

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Society, Hatred, Nation

You can change friends but not neighbours.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Change, Friends

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
William Hazlitt

Wise, Less, Nor

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace, Live, Friendly

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Goal, Prayer

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan

Time, War, Children

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I

God, Brave, Soldiers

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
Kelly Clarkson

Girl, Makes, Door

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain

War, Powerful, May

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Money, Worry, Making

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?
Theresa May

School, Children, Country

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly

Fear, Themselves, Dare

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
Shimon Peres

Change, Peace, Nature

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge

Justice, Law, Eyes

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
Vanessa Paradis

Famous, Live, Avoid

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.
Delta Goodrem

Try, Wanted, Show

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
William Godwin

Nature, Expect, Shall

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Respect, Through, Turn

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Ariel Sharon

Respect, Live, Control

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Le Gallienne

Wisdom, Beginning, Oblivion

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Don Van Vliet

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
Mary Douglas

American, Her, Israel

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
William Kingdon Clifford

Simple, Enough, Same

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
Li Peng

Friendly, Close, India

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
Gunter Grass

Peace, Country, Find

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.
Linda McCartney

Nice, Else, Everyone

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
Joschka Fischer

United, Interest, Excellent

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