History Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image ““...just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.”” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up. Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...” — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“A man's life is about keeping rules, breaking them, and making new ones.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn’t.” — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Just live as intended. What has to happen will happen regardless of how many rules you set over your life.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“This world seems to have different rules from the other world I’ve been living in all of my life. I wonder if I’ll ever… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Do things that give you access to the world so that you can at least rule your world.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because… — Susan Pogorzelski Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
