Alexander McCall Smith
Related People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can g... BELLA POLLEN One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old GRANT FAIRLEY One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old friend... GRANT FAIRLEY IRISH BLESSINGS PATRICK HENRY PEARSE But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than ... FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR CHANAKYA GAVIN HOOD The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not... GAVID HOOD There are specific technologies and knowledge required to be good at any one of the areas we do. We ... BOB WEBER JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES JAMES WELDON JOHNSON JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES There are 43 guys in the world that race these things every week. To be one of those 43 guys is awfu... DALE BLANEY The economic impact is in the millions of dollars, ... And those are dollars you can't recoup. For e... ROBERT BROWN Those are things you like to happen every year, but they don't happen every year. Obviously, it hasn... TOM YOUNG We all see one of those once a year, once every five years. BOB MOTZKO Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. T... BILL GURLEY MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine w... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL I have never won a bracket, however I fill one out every year. I always do the bracket contests with... BRYAN STEIN DEAN KOONTZ After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new st... FRED DELUCA We were in that league for four years and it was a very competitive in all the sports. The new ECC b... BOB WARREN C.S. LEWIS He hates mental mistakes. Errors, you're going to make those mistakes every day. But the fact that y... LUIS SOJO Friendships come and go but throughout life we determine who our real friends are. NIXON JUSTINIANI EMILIA FOX We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are... JASON ALDEAN A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are differe... JANICE KRUGER ALBERT CAMUS There will be a program practically every day of the month. JEANNE JOHNSON THOMAS S. MONSON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE C. JOYBELL C. In times of adversity, you will realize who is there for you. The struggle is real and those who wal... ANGIE KARAN MARLEE MATLIN MORGAN MATSON He was slow to make friends. But when he made friends they were friends for life. In fact, they stil... LORRAINE RANDALL EMILY THORNE Claire and McCall played every minute of every game last year, and that wasn't by chance. They deser... DAN TOBIAS He has made contacts, personal friendships, with each and every one of the so-called leadership Demo... PETER BURLING You know what hurt was those two weeks when we had really nice weather. I was wearing shorts. It's a... JUDY MILLER What makes cancer so hard in terms of really conquering the disease is its complexity. There are myr... ANNA BARKER Over the last three or four years I drove every inch of Vegas and we walked into every casino. We ev... ED DROSTE This franchise has nothing to be ashamed of. Every team goes through ups and downs. Those experience... NICK ANDERSON JOHN CONNOLLY They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes... PETER HOOK SOURCE UNKNOWN There will be a savings. Now that we're through one year (of restructuring) we understand there are ... KATHY KAWAGUCHI MARLEE MATLIN Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never kno... SAM CLAFLIN ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. JOSEPH PARRY WENDY WASSERSTEIN Snatch the moment, seize the best of it & make use of every moment.No laziness, never leave things f... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the last month, there has been a lot of that sentiment, but when you are a coach or a player you ... DOM CAPERS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at audition... JAMIE DORNAN LATIKA TEOTIA Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead, but have only finished the... ANTIPHANES PABLO OLIVER STONE Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pic... DIET EMAN RACHEL HAWKINS FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There are ships which float on water,
Or docked next to land.
The very best ships are friendships wi... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Those are the worst ones. Those are the hardest ones to make -- you're wide open. But luckily it fel... ASHLEY ALTMAN Every season undergoes changes. I've been in the NFL over 30 years and it has been like that every s... BILL BELICHICK You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there t... JOHN ANTIL For six years, every summer and every weekend, I was in the middle of their lives. Some of those guy... COLLIS TEMPLE JR You know how they say you can go to any game and see something you've never seen before? Well, that ... CHARLES OPPIO It's one of those ones you want to bowl every ball. I think I bowled a couple last year that were pr... ASHLEY GILES EMILY THORNE Only when we are thrust into the deepest and most terrible corner of life, do we see our real friend... ANSUL NOOR And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gon... JULIUS ROSENBERG This was one of our best performances of the year. I was pleased with our effort. We are going in th... BILL KELLEY SHANNON L. ALDER SHERRILYN KENYON In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be... GEORGE LEONARD In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The be... GEORGE LEONARD GLORIA ESTEFAN Every one of those matches was a state-caliber match. That's what helps you get better. We are not c... RYLAND WAGNER J.D. STROUBE KAZUO ISHIGURO RYAN REYNOLDS The risk you can't do anything about feels scarier than the one you can. Washing your hands a lot, s... DAVID ROPEIK The day you will provide a family with groceries might be the beginning of a new life for that famil... DOUGLAS YEBOAH My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at th... BETH MOORE You come out your first year and go to the Final Four and you think you are supposed to get there ev... JOE CHAPMAN One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive ar... STEPHEN KINZER The largest carriers have raised rates each and every month this year. Instead of increasing across ... BILL HARDEKOPF He was one of my best friends. . . . Those are the people you can count on the fingers of one hand. BILL PARCELLS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We don't want to make too much of any one month. But last month was flat in terms of total jobs. Thi... BILL CONERLY There are 2 types of enemies that a person can have.
1) Those who are fit to be friends and
2) Those... APURVA GAGLANI New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions ... ROB LEBOW ALBERT CAMUS JOHN SCHNEIDER There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the goo... HAKAN NESSER
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never giv... 
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not... 
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In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memo... 
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Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has so... 
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For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... 
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d... 
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Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
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For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil... 
A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it w... 
…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most r... 
The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so... 
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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, ... 
Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly... 
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every ... 
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