Queen Elizabeths Quotes & Sayings

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done. — Israel Nathan Herstein

The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds, and they riot in battle, and murder, and clamour, and desperation. If they can't agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they'll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills; and social storms in household teacups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they'll quarrel with Mrs Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the nosier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. — Nick Nolte

What freedom does a starving man have? The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things. — Thomas Sowell

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever. — Rosie Perez

We must always apologize for talking painting. — Paul Valery

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot. — Paul Ryan

Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display. — Richard Corliss

I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you. — Uzodinma Iweala

It was always the same: in the ring you wanted to kill someone, but once you got out you were mates again. — Robert Muchamore

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. — Stephen King