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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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I should like to be a horse.
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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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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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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 believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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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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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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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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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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