I should like to be a horse.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFor many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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The 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.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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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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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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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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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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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I 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.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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[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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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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