"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

--

Norman Douglas

#Neighbor Quotes

“I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.”
“The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army”
“When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.”
“I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].”
“Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.”
“We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.”
“Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.”

Source : "Mike Nichols: The Special Risks And Rewards Of The Director's Art" by Barbara Gelb, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.
“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”

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