44 Scotland Street Quotes

#1. With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

Duke Of Wellington

#3. My island was not wild, compared to this.
There are such monsters in a palace.

Foz Meadows

#4. Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

Hillary Clinton

#6. I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Etty Hillesum

#7. Jesus emerges not as the cultural captive of any one group of people, but as the promise of salvation to all believers and as the foundation of liberation in this life.

Marsha Hansen

#8. The Son of God told his disciples to baptize "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). "Name," note, not "names": the three persons together constitute the one God.

J.I. Packer

#9. I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

Ne-Yo

#10. And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs.

Lisa Gardner

#11. Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

Naomi Novik