Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 August 1948
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bullying ignored blunt
Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
snakes moments arise
None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.
widowhood would-be should
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
mma cake temptation
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
sight accomplishment imbalance
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
heavyweights persons prepared
Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
kindness men thinking
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
quirky stalking international-business
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
opposites way moral
It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.