"One of the most destructive things that's happening……" — Alexander McCall Smith
"One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse."
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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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More Bind Quotes
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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