I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"!


Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
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Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the...
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really...
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to h...
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Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
NORODOM SIHANOUK
Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
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John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted ever...
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In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CLEOPATRA
I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.
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I'd rather go by bus.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as wel...
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN
Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN
I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibi...
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil h...
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarb...
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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the...
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For tha...
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
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It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, he...
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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
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We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but ...
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I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
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Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
CLEOPATRA
Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. W...
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Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly whe...
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My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
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ELIZABETH HARDWICK
He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY
When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti...
ELIZABETH DREW
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
ELIZABETH HARRISON
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all w...
ELIZABETH DREW
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found ...
ELIZABETH DUNPHY
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
ELIZABETH BOWEN