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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.


Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
G. K. CHESTERTON We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time...
PYTHAGORAS Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they ke...
SOURCE UNKNOWN We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what w...
ANN RINALDI We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
MIKE PENCE Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
HENRY DRUMMOND We make our own sauce. We make our own rub. We make our own marinade. We make everything but the mea...
JAMES ROBBINS Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
LEON URIS In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In multitude of friends, we can barely identify our enemies
ETC WANYANWU We thank God that our enemies are idiots.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
JARED BROCK God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour...
ANTHONY GIDDENS I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.
JOHN MCCAIN We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our frien...
P. D. JAMES We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our fri...
P. D. JAMES Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God...
LULU MARES Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love ...
ASHISH KUMAR In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.

MARK LONG We need to get focused on our next three games. We need to make sure we take care of our business.
LONNIE GAYLOR Time is relative... The mind makes it slow, the heart makes it fast, our friends make it worth while...
UNKNOWN It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But o...
WILLA CATHER We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit
SUNDAY ADELAJA We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when da...
JAMES LARKIN We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do
JOHN C. COLLINS The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our ...
DAVID MCGEE Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we...
ABRAHAM FLEXNER If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
ADDISON MIZNER God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
NEAL A. MAXWELL First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
CHARLES C. NOBLE We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN I think everybody is stepping up their play because they know the importance of these next 20 games....
ANTAWN JAMISON Our views differ, but we are not enemies.
ALEXANDER MILINKEVICH Feast of Matthias the Apostle In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to...
A. LEONARD GRIFFITH We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ver...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) There's our customer service and we make our flowers fresh. We make the flowers up as we get the ord...
SANDY PRINCE We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...
JAMES SALLIS To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
KEN LEVINE We showed our character coming back. I wish we'd won tonight to make it seven games, but we got the ...
GERARD GALLANT Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Next year we can go right out the door and be on our fields.
BOB HOLT We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
F.W. BOREHAM We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
ANONYMOUS It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certa...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certai...
BIAS OF PRIENE Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematician...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY If we are to abolish the death penalty, let our friends the murderers make the first move.
ALPHONSE KARR An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no ...
THOMAS CARLYLE We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no p...
ALBERT EINSTEIN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we ...
JOSEPH WARREN In the end,we will remember not thewords of our enemies but silence of our freinds.
UNKNOWN We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We're going to do our best to make that one extra play next week. We just had to make one more play.
JEFF SAMARDZIJA Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We make our future
SOTONYE ANGA We all have our flaws, but we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
ERIN HUNTER We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
ERIN HUNTER That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way t...
YURI HERRERA Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI We make our own independent agreement with our workers.
EVERTON MOORE Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
GEORGE W. BUSH In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
CHARLES REVSON In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
HEINRICH HEINE We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Results will be Our Friend and will make Friends
JAN JANSEN EASY BRANCHES God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...
MARCUS GARVEY We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction.
AESOP We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction
AESOP Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because...
ANNA ROZENICH In each of them, like in the manger of Bethlehem, Jesus knocks at the door of our hearts, asking tha...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our fri...
J.K. ROWLING It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our fri...
J. K. ROWLING Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH We have to make our agriculture work for our people
SOTONYE ANGA Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
OSCAR WILDE

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G. K. CHESTERTON The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In thi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about som...
G. K. CHESTERTON Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher...
G. K. CHESTERTON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
G. K. CHESTERTON When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that n...
G. K. CHESTERTON Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristo...
G. K. CHESTERTON Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...
G. K. CHESTERTON To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
G. K. CHESTERTON Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. CHESTERTON Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, beca...
G. K. CHESTERTON One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important...
G. K. CHESTERTON What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featu...
G. K. CHESTERTON The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense...
G. K. CHESTERTON Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our g...
G. K. CHESTERTON The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has...
G. K. CHESTERTON Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
G. K. CHESTERTON Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. CHESTERTON It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
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