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I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
Prince William
You
Blame
People
Decision
Important
Own
Think
Other
Responsible
About
Make
Very
Your
Therefore
Actions
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Princess Diana
Love
Day
Age
Happy
People
World
Feeling
Half
Think
Month
Unloved
Minute
Give
Day And Age
Hour
Know
Am
Very
Disease
Want
Biggest
Suffers
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
Happy
Moody
Better
Miserable
Rich
Say
About
Compromise
Like
How
Than
Moderately
Just
Poor
They Say
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard Branson
Success
You
Happy
People
Money
Too Many People
Too
True
Make
Opinion
How
How Much
True Success
How Much Money
In My Opinion
Much
Successful
Should
Measure
Measured
Many
Associate
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
Robert Plant
Past
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Stone
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character
Man
Out
Would
Never
He
Knew
Real
Real Character
Measure
Found
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine
Family
People
World
Older
Think
Colin
Must
Brother
Five
Either
Chinese
Them
Younger
Younger Brother
Apparently
Older Brother
Dad
Mum
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
Life
Life Is A
Beginning
Gig
Envelope
Arranged
Halo
End
Surrounding
Lamps
Us
Series
Luminous
Consciousness
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham
Memories
Age
Burden
Old
Old Age
Physical
Mental
Bear
Faculties
Failing
Makes
Hard
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham
Life
World
Own
Broadcast
Would
Sexual
Horror
My Own
Surprise
Were
Anyone
Large
Fill
Belief
Whose
Hardly
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
Freedom
Rights
People
Law
Mind
Will
Own
Human Rights
Increasingly
Find
Torture
Corrupt
Steal
Bear
Freedom Of Expression
Reach
Judgement
Block
Oppress
Governments
Deny
Escape
Human
Where
Should
Aspirations
Hard
International
International Law
Expression
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Genius
Uncertain
Hazardous
True
True Genius
Information
Conflicting
Capacity
Evaluation
Resides
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill
Quality
First
Audacity
Needed
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill
Politics
War
You
Dangerous
Once
Only
Exciting
Almost
Times
Quite
Many
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Government
Conservative
Hypocrisy
Conservative Government
Organized
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
Religion
Science
Intelligence
Will
Our
Guidelines
Adopt
Something
Fade
Over
Infancy
Left
Reason
Away
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy
Life
News
You
Heart
Memory
People
Everyday Life
Everyday
Say
Find
People Say
Poetry
Just
Bus
Your
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
Charles Spurgeon
Faith
Prayer
Before
Our
Angels
Faces
Adore
Shall
Throne
Come
Bow
Stunted
Narrow
Prayers
Contracted
Where
Ascend
Which
Requests
Stand
Even
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
Charles Spurgeon
You
Heart
Yourself
Sometimes
Will
Singing
Ladder
Mood
Rise
Sing
Make
Up
Begin
Often
Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
Charles Spurgeon
Joy
Tears
Our
Pardon
More
Only
Unspeakable
Sin
Also
How
How Much
Offering
Lament
Us
Much
Let Us
Jesus
Need
Rejoice
There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
Charles Spurgeon
Mistake
People
Some People
Else
Those
Wear
Some
Like
Label
Sinners
Them
Might
Show
Who
Actions
Round
Christians
Necks
Need
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
Wisdom
Mind
Restless
Makes
Pillow
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
Happy
Book
Picture
Our
See
Able
Except
Never
Picture Book
Suppose
Question
May
Grandchildren
Elephant
I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
Dawn French
Happy
Girl
Always
Am
Fat
Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.
Delilah
God
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Just Be
Enjoy
Out
Borne
Blessings
Just
Just Be Yourself
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell
Journey
My Journey
Bends
Sight
River
Simply
Sails
Ship
Ends
Mean
Means
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