"If your ceiling should fall down, then you……" — Alexander McCall Smith
"If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way."
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83 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith has 83 quotes on this site.
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another,…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just…
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all…
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup…
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the…
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others…
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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal…
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I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue…
— Jay Carney
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary…
— Eric Hoffer
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit…
— T. Harv Eker
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Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their…
— Paul Molitor
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
— Aldous Huxley
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We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after…
— George Harrison
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From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer…
— Corey Taylor
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our…
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