It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThere are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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