Top 100 Quotes About Lilian
#1. She said, 'It's real, isn't it?'
Lilian answered after a pause, with a bowed head, in a murmur. 'Yes, it's real. It's the only real thing.
Sarah Waters
#2. It was like a cure, being with Lilian. It made one feel like a piece of wax being cradled in a soft, warm palm.
Sarah Waters
#3. If I was in deep shit with Lilian before, I was snorkeling at the waste treatment plant now.
C.I. Dennis
#4. I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but ... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.
Don Everly
#5. Only when the little charade was nearly complete did Frances understand what it was all about. The spot at which Lilian had been grasping lay just above her heart. She had been drawing an imaginary stake from it.
Sarah Waters
#6. When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#7. It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual throws about himself, from Anna's smiles, from Lilian's tomorrows, from the shut-in room, the turned-in heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
#8. I love Koscielny, I've seen him a lot. He has good leg speed, which reminds me of Lilian [Thuram]. The last time we spoke I told him to work hard and he'll become one of the best defenders in the world. He's at the standard of a Vidic or Pique. I mean that sincerely.
Marcel Desailly
#9. One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it,
Lilian Jackson Braun
#10. No one ever owns a cat," he corrected her. "You share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respect . . . although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal. Siamese particularly have a way of getting the upper hand.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#12. My days keep getting shorter. When I'm a hundred, I'll be going to bed before I get up.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#13. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.
Lilian Thuram
#17. Phut Phat knew, at an early age, that humans were an inferior breed. They were unable to see in the dark. They ate and drank unthinkable concoctions. And they had only five senses; the pair who lived with Phut Phat could not even transmit their thoughts without resorting to words.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#20. 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
#21. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#22. All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
Lilian Katz
#23. 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
#24. When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#25. Science is a particular way of thinking about things.
Lilian Katz
#26. We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.
Lilian Katz
#27. lying down. Not any more. He was a husband
Lilian Harry
#28. Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you...
spirit, soul, and body --
think about it, talk about it,
sing about it, shout about it,
and the praise cure has begun.
Lilian B. Yeomans
#30. If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.
Nalini Singh
#32. We're getting married in an hour. I already spoke to Nicolai
Nalini Singh
#33. A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#34. To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality
Lilian Jackson Braun
#35. As a literary composition, it is utterly worthless, and could be admired only by persons who know nothing about literature. As for its giving offence, that is the very thing I intended it to do.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#36. It is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.
Lilian Whiting
#38. Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.
Lilian Katz
#39. Cats are cats ... the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran
Lilian Jackson Braun
#40. 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
#43. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#44. No one ever owns a cat ... you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects ... although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#46. Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#47. Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation
reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.
Lilian Katz
#50. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#51. Amanda raised her glass in a toast. "Here's a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!" Then she winced and scowled at Riker, who had kicked her under the table. Polly raised her glass and quoted from Hamlet: "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#52. I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.
Lilian Thuram
#53. Mickey Maus," William was saying, "is a nut about butter. The only time he ever lost his cool was when we were having a small brunch and we were down to our last three pounds of butter. He panicked.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#54. In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
Lilian Katz
#55. The cats were relaxing in a patch of sunlight on the rug without a thought in their sleek brown heads. What matter to them that it was Sunday-or even Thursday? Every day was Today in their scheme of things, and there was no such thing as Yesterday or Tomorrow.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#56. 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
#57. Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience
Lilian Katz
#59. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#60. If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!
Lilian Jackson Braun
#61. The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#63. The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#64. Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
Lilian Jackson Braun
#65. Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.
Lilian Katz
#67. At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#68. Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode
Lilian Jackson Braun
#69. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#70. If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#71. To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.
Lilian Whiting
#73. When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.
Lilian Thuram
#76. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#77. Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.
Lilian Katz
#78. Certain element - a few crazies - that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#79. There is no case which calls for injustice; and to condemn a civilian by the judgment of a secret military tribunal is both unjust and illegal.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#80. 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
#82. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#84. Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.
Lilian Katz
#85. Remember what your own Shelley says: 'The past is Death's, the future is thine own.' Take it, while it is still yours, and fix your mind, not on what you may have done long ago to hurt, but on what you can do now to help.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#87. He's our rodent control officer. He doesn't catch mice, he just terrifies them.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#88. I quite agree with you that it is detestably malicious. But the worst thing about it is that it's all true.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#90. Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?
Lilian Jackson Braun
#92. Nor can I allow you to leave my arms, unless I can be certain you know that this is where you belong. Can you not feel that your place is here - in my arms, in my home, in my life?
Lory Lilian
#93. No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#94. 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
#96. Why must one religion be hounded by another? What gives them the right to punish and persecute someone of a different faith? Why?
Lilian Gafni
#98. Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#99. Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.
Lilian Thuram
#100. I dare say you will think it an absurd prejudice; but a human body, to me, is a sacred thing; I don't like to see it treated irreverently and made hideous.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
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