It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThese wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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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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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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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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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 should like to be a horse.
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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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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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[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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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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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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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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