Alexander McCall Smith
Related Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's being analyzed and evaluated as for its contents, its potency, and [for] any fingerprints, any ... TOMMY THOMPSON It's prepared us. It's made us mature as a team and be ready for the sort of things that can happen ... BRYCE DAVISON I was right there on launch pad 39B, looking up at those grand towers thinking about my teacher and ... ANDY VIOLETTE OSHO FUYUMI SORYO MARCUS AURELIUS It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to hav... MOSS HART You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ. DARIUSH YOUKHANEH Monica Sanchez was absolutely brilliant for us. She had three or four game-changing moments. Those t... JAY ENTLICH NICHOLAS SPARKS TOM ROBBINS LEIGH BARDUGO KILROY J. OLDSTER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU IAN MCEWAN SARAH J. MAAS JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN LAILAH GIFTY AKITA ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's vo... LOUIS L'AMOUR RICHELLE MEAD MARTA NINA LACOUR JODI PICOULT We've needed somebody else to be a scoring threat on the perimeter, besides Crystal (Smith) and Kris... LISA BLUDER History tells us that any attempt by a country to realize its interests through the use or threat of... HU JINTAO DAVID A. BEDNAR FREDERICK BUECHNER KURT VONNEGUT That made things even harder. We knew there was a 25 per cent risk of something going wrong in surge... HANNAH ROGERS JOHN GREEN The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN DAVID GUTERSON SYLVIA PLATH EDITH WHARTON RAINER MARIA RILKE ZORA NEALE HURSTON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... ANTONY BEEVOR CASSANDRA CLARE JEFFREY EUGENIDES ARTHUR P. STANLEY ROBERT QUILLEN NEIL GAIMAN KALLISTOS WARE JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER AMIT RAY May its not portion to meet any one in your life but if you feel sudden pangs of sorrow in daily dre... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA PAUL BOWLES CARSON MCCULLERS JULIA QUINN VIRGINIA WOOLF CORMAC MCCARTHY WILLIAM HAZLITT REBECCA WEST December 7th, 1941, was not just a day of infamy. In many ways it was a day of discovery for America... MICHAEL G. MULLEN JODI PICOULT CRAIG GROESCHEL The small talk that sprang readily to their lips came to hers only with a tremendous effort. After a... ERICK SETIAWAN CHRISTINA ENGELA If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is SYED SHARUKH And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushi... RACHEL L. SCHADE We're tired of being told that who we are is wrong and that's what those of us who were geeks ... th... JOSHUA ESTRIN She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie... MEAGAN SPOONER She thought often of her own death, but without fear, loss having been her only belonging in this li... ESI EDUGYAN We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who... JOEY W. HILL OMAR KHAYYáM Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment bu... LOUISE DOUGHTY JOYCE RACHELLE ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.TEGAN QUIN CRAIG GROESCHEL Everything around us is made up of matter so small, its mass cannot be written down. You're either a... KIARA S. MAHARAJ JOHN GLENN ORIGEN It was what we call a sword cane, ... She was unaware of it. She told us that she had bought it at a... STUART ANDERSON I was sitting, starring into the sky with a tear in my eye thinking: what a beautiful world that the... BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. MARCEL PROUST The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddin... ALICE MCDERMOTT We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at ... MELITA TESSY That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at... FLOYD ABRAMS The representative told us it was for the comfort and safety of their customers and she repeated tha... FRANNY MARION BILLY GRAHAM The world economy has lost much of its momentum and that has affected us too. MANFRED SCHNEIDER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CRAIG GROESCHEL At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attach... THOMAS DOLBY One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we under... BERNARD MARCUS We have lots of speed. It's tough to run in those conditions. Once the rain started, it was a bad fi... ALVIN WYATT
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The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... 
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... 
The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are cert... 
Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no... 
It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn’t love. And 
What is it that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals? Well, as I see it, its exac... 
She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was ... 
Nothing cuts a neural route faster through the brain then a pinch of pain. Periods of unhappiness pe... 
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... 
She couldn't bring herself to care, because those moment she spent brawling were the few moments she... 
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they... 
The gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow. 
…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most r... 
My hands tightened on her, and I again tried to memorize every part of this moment. There was such p... 
Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of ... 
I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ... 
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... 
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointm... 
The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover’s knot. 
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... 
That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moment... 
That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty 
Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... 
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it... 
How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths abou... 
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her br... 
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse... 
Nothing less than 7 inches. 
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the... 
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves... 
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves... 
She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [...] 
The purpose of the creation doctrine, then, is not to ascribe a chronological starting-point to the ... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".
Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... 
Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. 
The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... 
She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to ... 
She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuse... 
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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart be... 
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly f... 
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to li... 
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have b... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... 
This world
It's only awkward if it matters. 
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. 
Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget... 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
Discovery and this crew took us around and around, and that view is still tremendous, ... To those w... 
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at ... 
This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she... 
God’s purpose for us is that we ought to be
Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... 
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.