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Things Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
- But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
- Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but…
- Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always…
- It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with…
- The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in…
- We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees,…
- It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
- 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…
- It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle