Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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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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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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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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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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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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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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