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
important may sometimes
Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
sight attachment people
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
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?
sex mean men
Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.
play people giving
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
joy world emotion
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
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.
wedding real simple
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
inspirational-life animal land
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
widowhood would-be should
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
creating order creative
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
mma cake temptation
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
thinking moments
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
sight accomplishment imbalance
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.