I just adore her work. It's the subtle way she has of talking about the entirety of a life and the strange moments a life suddenly pivots upon. ... She's just a genius.


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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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A handful of pencils.<...
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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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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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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
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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
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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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
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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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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly ...
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Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES
Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES
Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE
I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that...
GREG MOORE
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that ...
DEMI MOORE
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MOORE
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
FRANKFORT MOORE
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
MARIANNE MOORE
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's ow...
GEORGE MOORE
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev...
MARIANNE MOORE
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE
The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
THOMAS MOORE
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE MOORE
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE
'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE
Superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out t...
GEORGE MOORE
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
GEORGE MOORE
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE
The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
MARCIA MOORE
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE
Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE
Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE