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Alistair Horne
Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY 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. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS 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. ZARA PHILLIPS 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. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... 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. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... 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. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON 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... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON 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 think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN 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 What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period... PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett... PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. PRINCESS DIANA I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel... PRINCESS DIANA Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves... PRINCESS DIANA The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. PRINCESS DIANA When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. PRINCESS DIANA I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ... PRINCESS DIANA If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. PRINCESS DIANA Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. PRINCESS DIANA HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven... PRINCESS DIANA Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. PRINCESS DIANA I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am. PRINCESS DIANA
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ALISTAIR OVEREEM I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. ALISTAIR COOKE Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of... ALISTAIR OVEREEM I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol... ALISTAIR OVEREEM As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i... ALISTAIR COOKE A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it ALISTAIR COOKE I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. ALISTAIR MACLEAN I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu... ALISTAIR OVEREEM Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps. ALISTAIR BROWNLEE As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly im... ALISTAIR OVEREEM I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better. ALISTAIR OVEREEM Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. ALISTAIR SINCLAIR There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ... ALISTAIR SINCLAIR Green coffee stores up to three years. It does not deteriorate and can be kept until the price is ri... ALISTAIR MACNAB The number of people already employed in the industry is in the thousands, and it's at all levels, i... ALISTAIR MACNAB Houston is now on the coffee map where it wasn't before. ALISTAIR MACNAB We're talking about a lot of homes. ALISTAIR JACKSON Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build. ALISTAIR JACKSON They wondered, if you cannot have everybody holding hands in perfect harmony like a 1970s Coca-Cola ... ALISTAIR HUDSON Time does not, and shall never, equal experience. ALISTAIR HARDING It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo... ALISTAIR GOODMAN If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ... ALISTAIR BEGG If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do. ALISTAIR OVEREEM Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an... ALISTAIR COOKE The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle... 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ALISTAIR OVEREEM Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the pr... ALISTAIR URQUHART The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. ALISTAIR DARLING The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ... ALISTAIR DARLING We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th... ALISTAIR COOKE There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ... ALISTAIR MACLEAN Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. ALISTAIR BEGG No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. ALISTAIR MACLEOD Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris... HARRIET VAN HORNE One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. HARRIET VAN HORNE Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. WILLIAM VAN HORNE Prayer is the voice of faith. WILLIAM VAN HORNE The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. WILLIAM VAN HORNE Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. WILLIAM VAN HORNE Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours.
Advance! spare not! nor lo... RICHARD HENGIST HORNE Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. HARRIET VAN HORNE The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. WILLIAN VAN HORNE Far out at sea,--the sun was high,
While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
We saw a snow-w... RICHARD HENGIST HORNE There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of... HARRIET VAN HORNE On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hat... RICHARD HENGIST HORNE The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. WILLIAM VAN HORNE Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. WILLIAM VAN HORNE There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more... HARRIET VAN HORNE Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all HARRIET VAN HORNE It's still shocking he could get himself into the mental state where he could walk into a jewelry st... DAVE VAN HORNE All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become ... DAVE VAN HORNE He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball.... DAVE VAN HORNE Tom took great pride in the fact he didn't miss a game. Like a lot of young broadcasters of the '60s... DAVE VAN HORNE It wasn't just a love of the game but a love of the people in the game that he'll be remembered for.... DAVE VAN HORNE Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exem... HARRIET VAN HORNE There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of... HARRIET VAN HORNE The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. A... HARRIET VAN HORNE It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won... MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY