Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-”or up, I suppose-”replacing other people in the process.
– Alexander McCall Smith
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- People don’t talk about mercy very much these days-”it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary – Alexander McCall Smith
- A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most. – Alexander McCall Smith
- It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
- It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
- If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
- -¦the world was a vale of tears-”it always had been. – Alexander McCall Smith
- Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no. – Alexander McCall Smith
- Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so. – Alexander McCall Smith
- She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. – Alexander McCall Smith
- The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. – Alexander McCall Smith
- But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul. – Alexander McCall Smith
- Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare. – Alexander McCall Smith
- Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
- International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
- If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. – Alexander McCall Smith
- It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
- To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. – Alexander McCall Smith
- There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. – Alexander McCall Smith
- It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
- There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful. – Alexander McCall Smith
- we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. – Alexander McCall Smith
- And if you do see any pirates, I don’t want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? – Alexander McCall Smith
- …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
- …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
- The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing ‘bad’ people with ‘good’ people. – Owen Jones
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. – JBS Haldane
- Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself. – Harry Truman
- Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? – Cormac McCarthy
- Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history — and I am a student of human history. – Daniel Nayeri
- A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. – Eben Alexander
- Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal. – Erica Sehyun Song
- Get rid of grudges and negativity in your thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts. You deserve a beautiful life. – Sanchita Pandey
- Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength. – Archibald Marwizi
- I’ve found that replacing one thing for another only means you don’t yet know where the glitches are. – LRW Lee
- Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. – Gloria Steinem
- Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. – Ayn Rand
- As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure. – Joe Cawley
- Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don’t like, replacing them with your true desires. – Steven Redhead