True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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 believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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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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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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