A Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith
Scottish - Writer
Born: August 24, 1948

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

David Rakoff

If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

Ajahn Chah

I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick; they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions.

Julian Assange

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Mike McGavick

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Bing Crosby

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I think religion is as flawed an enterprise as any other human endeavor, but the interests and ambitions of religion are the right interests and ambitions.

Scott Derrickson

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

Tate Reeves

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Daniel Nathans

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Dillon Burroughs

I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '... and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'.