I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWe 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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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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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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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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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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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There 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.
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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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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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