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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.
What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.
The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.
Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.