#hbo

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise. ↗

— Alan Autry

#educational #emanate #etc #factors #high

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. ↗

— Russell Baker

#after #been #boasting #county #dark

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

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cast #death #everybody #favorite #gloom

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ↗

— Josh Billings

#god #most #neighbors #people #repent

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#equally #establish #important #neighbors #peace

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.' ↗

— Les Dawson

#going #help #i #kicking #men

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#began #i #neighborhood #sing #sort