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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 405d932 | Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. | Blaise Pascal | ||
| 9954876 | I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural. | Blaise Pascal | ||
| fc7bcaf | These days her family, particularly her sisters, Jane and Sarah and brother Charles, are aware of the appalling problems she has endured. Jane has always given sensible advice and Sarah, from being dubious of her kid sister's success, is now very protective. "You never criticize Diana in front of her," notes a friend. Her relations with her mother and her father, when he was alive, are patchier. While Diana enjoys a sporadic but affectionat.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| ad61de2 | While Diana and her mother started planning guest lists, wardrobe requirements and the other details for the wedding of the year, the media vainly attempted to discover her hiding-place. The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 97cfca8 | As a child she sensed her special destiny, as an adult she has remained true to her instincts. Diana has continued to carry the burden of public expectations while enduring considerable personal problems. Her achievement has been to find her true self in the face of overwhelming odds. She will continue to tread a different path from her husband, the royal family and their system and yet still conform to their traditions. As she says: "When .. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 466c8c3 | Not only did the barbaric incident shake the king's "confidence in the innate decency of mankind," it inspired his son's lifetime loathing of the Bolsheviks, the murder of his godfather, Nicholas II, setting his heart against the Soviets and all their works." -- | Andrew Morton | ||
| 2bf0a36 | I don't want my friends to be hurt and think I've dropped them but I haven't got time to sit and gossip, I've got things to do and time is precious. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 6bbb40f | malcriadas, moverse inutilmente | Barbara Wood | ||
| 1281694 | By the side of her bed there was a card, embossed with the Queen's cypher, giving the times of meals and table placements as well as a note saying how the various guests would be conveyed to the racecourse, either in open carriages or black Daimler saloons. Even though her family had rubbed shoulders with the royal family for years, Sarah was understandably nervous. She arrived promptly in the Green Drawing Room for pre-lunch drinks and the.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| d267877 | Over the last few years the counselling, the friendships and the holistic therapies she has embraced have enabled her to win back her personality, a character which has been smothered by her husband, the royal system, and the public's expectations towards their fairy-tale princess. The woman behind the mask is not a flighty, skittish young thing nor a vision of saintly perfection. She is, however, a much quieter, introverted and private per.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 95b326a | On one trip in January this year she and Cardinal Hume spent nearly two hours with homeless youngsters at a hostel on the south bank of the Thames. Some teenagers, many with drink and drug problems, greeted her presence with aggressively hostile questions, others were simply surprised that she had bothered to see them on a cold Saturday night. As she was talking, a drunken Scotsman lurched into the room. "Hey, you're gorgeous," he slurred, .. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 64a1534 | An incident which meant a great deal to Diana took place in that same hospital away from the cameras, smiling dignitaries and the watchful public. The drama began uneventfully three days earlier in a back yard in Balderton, a village near Newark when housewife Freda Hickling collapsed with a brain haemorrhage. When Diana first saw her behind the screens in the intensive care unit she was on a life-support system. Her husband Peter sat with .. | Andrew Morton | ||
| bd171ac | but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best. | Andrew Morton | ||
| b30677b | The smallest breach of royal behaviour is deserving of complaint. After a film premiere, she attended a party where she enjoyed a long conversation with Liza Minnelli. The following morning it was pointed out that it was not done to attend these occasions. It had a happy result however. She enjoyed a rapport with the Hollywood star who talked at length about her difficult life and told her simply that when she felt down she thought of Diana.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 8627b04 | The Sovereign has also implied that the instability in their marriage is an over-riding consideration in any musings she may have about abdication. Naturally this does not please Prince Charles who refused to speak to his mother for several days following her 1991 Christmas broadcast when she spoke of her intention to serve the nation and the Commonwealth for "some years to come". For a man who holds his mother in total awe that silence was.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 05505a7 | While Diana finds the monarchy as presently organized a crumbling institution, she has a deep respect for the manner in which the Queen has conducted herself for the last forty years. Indeed, much as she would like to leave her husband, Diana has emphasized to her: "I will never let you down." Before she attended a garden party on a stifling July afternoon last year, a friend offered Diana a fan to take with her. She refused saying: "I can'.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| d50a404 | Although Diana has successfully shaken off the traditional image of the fairy-tale princess concerned exclusively with shopping and fashion it still colours the preconceptions of those she meets for the first time. She is used to being patronized. As she tells close friends: "It happens a lot. It's interesting to see people's reactions to me. They have one impression in mind and then, as they talk to me, I can see it changing." At the same .. | Andrew Morton | ||
| c7f68bd | The boys have been a loving lifeline for the Princess in her isolated position. "They mean everything to me," she is fond of saying. However, in September this year, when Prince Harry joins his elder brother at Ludgrove preparatory school, Diana will have to face the prospect of an empty nest at Kensington Palace. "She realizes that they are going to develop and expand and that soon a chapter in her own life will be complete," observes Jame.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 3bd033e | As Mother Teresa told her during her visit to Rome this year: "To heal other people you have to suffer yourself." Diana nodded vigorously in agreement. While she struggles to find an acceptable equilibrium in her life, she acknowledges the progress she has made. She says: "I've opened up. My life is changing. This is only the beginning." | Andrew Morton | ||
| 9e59cc9 | The genuine scientist is not moved by praise or blame. | Blame | ||
| be2e433 | One evening she can be immensely mature, discussing death and the after-life with George Carey, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the next night giggling away at a bridge party. "Sometimes she is possessed by a different spirit in response to breaking free from the yoke of responsibility that binds her," observed Rory Scott who still sees the Princess socially. As her brother says: "She has done very well to keep her sense of humour, that i.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 39041e1 | The speeches she is making with almost weekly regularity are a further satisfying feature of her royal life. Some she writes herself, others by a small coterie of advisers, including her private secretary Patrick Jephson, now a firm ally in the royal camp as she personally appointed him last November. It is a flexible informal group who discuss with the Princess the points she wants to make, research the statistics and then construct the sp.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 89d8593 | The Queen's Highland castle retreat, set in 40,000 acres of heather and grouse moor, is effectively the Windsors' family seat. Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family. However the very quirks and obscure family traditions which have accrued over the years can intimidate newcomers. "Don't sit there" they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit i.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 1ecff1d | With five emperors, eight kings, and four imperial dynasties rendered obsolete by the conflict, there was never a better time to emphasize that the newly minted House of Windsor--George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg und Gotha in 1917 to deflect anti-German sentiment--remained the unchanging keystone in the edifice of an empire upon which the sun never set. The | Andrew Morton | ||
| c27f6aa | Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere', | Andrew Morton | ||
| 5e425da | What they say behind my back is none of my business, but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best. | Andrew Morton | ||
| e44a2ca | Hubbard described Dianetics as a revolutionary and scientifically developed alternative to conventional psychiatry and psychotherapy, arguing that it could alleviate all manner of illnesses, including asthma, arthritis, alcoholism, ulcers, migraines, conjunctivitis, morning sickness, the common cold, and heart disease. In addition, he claimed it could hugely increase intelligence and eliminate burdensome emotions as well as cure conditions .. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 2af0df7 | While scientists saw man as a body, Hubbard argued that man was an endlessly reincarnated spirit. He did not worship God, but was his own god. By following Hubbard's applied religious philosophy, an individual could fully realize his immortal nature, freeing himself from his body. At its heart, the appeal of Scientology was not to a man's soul, but to his ego. He could become his own god . . . for a price. | Andrew Morton | ||
| eae0cfe | reality TV personality, property mogul and now President of the United States, Donald Trump attempted, unsuccessfully to woo her. | Andrew Morton | ||
| c8dc4b2 | One of the worst things that happened to her was that she was put on a pedestal which didn't allow her to develop in the direction that she wanted but one which has forced her to be concerned about image and perfection. | Andrew Morton | ||
| bfb3b7d | I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 61af1dd | I come away depleted of everything because they just suck me dry, because I tune in to all their moods and, boy, are there some undercurrents there! | Andrew Morton | ||
| cd7472c | contumely | Andrew Morton | ||
| 211985c | I'm learning to be patient. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 98fbfaf | what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth. | Andrew Morton | ||
| b757e98 | Opportunity beckoned. As the Princess admitted: 'I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. I am going to be me. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 7de2a13 | life, she had decided that the English were not | Andrew Morton | ||
| cb1cfa3 | She had such hope for the future, such belief that he would love, nurture and protect her from the difficulties that lay ahead. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 18ef328 | This needs a woman's touch', was her common refrain. Her view in essence was that so many issues and problems in a male-dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego. Problems could be more effectively addressed, she felt, when female qualities, as she saw them, of intuition, compassion, compromise and harmony were added to the equation. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 922b092 | It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 453e16e | tall, dark-haired guy | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 8a63905 | From heartache came strength, from strength, satisfaction. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 65f6967 | Cinematographers couldn | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 15facc6 | mother. The doctors want them | Barbara Delinsky |