Kevin Leman · 286 pages
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“That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.”
― Kevin Leman, quote from The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“يقرأ المولودون بكرا عادة عددا من الكتب أكثر مما يقرأه الآخرون، وهذا ما يوفر لهم أفضلية معرفية.”
― Kevin Leman, quote from The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.”
― Kevin Leman, quote from The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.”
― Kevin Leman, quote from The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“الخطأ الأكثر شيوعا من قبل الأبوين، هو تعويل آمال غير مبررة على أولادهما، والابن البكر هو على الدوام تقريبا من يتلقى صدمة المبالغة في الآمال المعقودة عليه من قبل أمه وأبيه.”
― Kevin Leman, quote from The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Silent Girl
“Have you seen what Gio’s wearing? Is it tights? Please tell me it’s tights.”
“Should it weird me out that you want to ogle my husband’s ass in a pair of tights?”
Dez just shook her head. “Not appreciating that ass would be like walking through the Sistine Chapel and not looking up.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“It was the first time I’d seen Alok’s home. I told you he was kind of poor, I mean not World Bank ads type starving poor or anything, but his home had the barest minimum one would need for existence. There was light, but no lampshades, there was a living room, but no couches, there was a TV, but not a colour one. The living room was where lived Alok’s father, entertaining himself with one of the two TV channels, close to unconscious by the time we reached. Alok’s mother was already waiting, using her sari edge to wipe her tears.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“I’ve recently discovered what I suspected all along – cynicism is overrated and overvalued. It’s the shield people hide behind in the mistake belief that it makes them appear cool, strong and impenetrable. But true bravery isn’t about following the crowd or pretending not to care – it’s about daring to trust in yourself and staying true to your heart in the face of dissent. True courage is going out on a limb for the people you love because it’s the right thing to do.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Horizon
“I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Moon Called
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