It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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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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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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