Lilian Whiting Quotes

#1. To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

Lilian Whiting

#2. His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.

Candace Bushnell

#3. As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.

Robert Mundell

#4. Our supply are our responses to life's demands.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

Lilian Whiting

#6. Only cheats go back on a promise.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

John Steinbeck

#8. By far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

Jeff Beck

#9. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

Lilian Whiting

#10. To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

Lilian Whiting

#11. No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity.

Lilian Whiting

#12. History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...

Lilian Whiting

#13. Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply
fascinating.

Lilian Whiting

#14. Love is the reality of the soul.

Lilian Whiting

#15. The vision always precedes the realization

Lilian Whiting

#16. When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

Lilian Whiting

#17. It is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Lilian Whiting

#18. While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert ... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Jules Verne

#19. Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#20. True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them,
that is another matter ...

Lilian Whiting

#21. Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

Christopher McDougall

#22. was pregnant, his father had written back

Julie Orringer