Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.


Jean-Paul Sartre

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It's very special having a new little girl.
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THOM GUNN
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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Family is the most important thing in the world.
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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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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
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ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
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WALLIS SIMPSON
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WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
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WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA

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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE