603 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. –.

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The.

When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.

She would give him the benefit of the doubt, as she always did: her experience had taught her that the names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they did about them.

Yes, thought Mma Ramotswe, the world can be very discouraging. But we cannot sit and think about all the things that have gone wrong, or could go wrong. There was no point in doing that... There was much for which we could be grateful, whatever the sorrows of this world.

The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers.” Mr Badule looked at her. “You are very right, my sister. There is.

I’m very interested in tea. I wouldn’t mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that mixture of bacon cooking for breakfast and the lavender-scented soap in the bathroom; the air from the sea drifing across the golf course; the aroma of coffee in the coffee bar in South Street. She should have noted them down. She should have said something about all that and the light and the hills with sheep on them like small white stones.

All of us had hard choices, she thought; the greatest of us and the least of us, and we had to feel our way through them and accept that there would sometimes be regrets.