Sceptred Isle Quotes

#1. I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

David Suchet

#2. Diligence makes big dreams come to past

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?

H.M. Ward

#5. Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Shashi Tharoor

#6. If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

John C. Maxwell

#7. A false hope gives only false comfort.

Gene Brewer

#8. I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

Lady Gaga

#9. What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

David Rubenstein

#10. The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

Shane Warne

#11. For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

James Russell Lowell

#13. Impossible means nothing to me. It's an illusion designed to weed out the weak from the strong.

Stephanie Rowe

#14. I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself ... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.

Celine Dion