Anne, Queen of Great Britain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.
-- Anne, Queen of Great Britain

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I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.
-- Anne, Queen of Great Britain

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Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.
-- Anne, Queen of Great Britain

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Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Anne, Queen of Great Britain famous quotes

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