Rodhan Khthir Quotes & Sayings

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever. — Lou Doillon

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. — Gustave Flaubert

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another]. — Richard Goldschmidt

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture. — Satya Nadella

I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive. — Eve Ensler

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings. — Joni Mitchell

For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world. — Cornelia Funke

But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up. — Rebecca Scherm

The worst performers and the best performers are givers; takers and matchers are more likely to land in the middle. This pattern holds up across the board. The Belgian medical students with the lowest grades have unusually high giver scores, but so do the students with the highest grades. Over the course of medical school, being a giver accounts for 11 percent higher grades. Even in sales, I found that the least productive salespeople had 25 percent higher giver scores than average performers - but so did the most productive salespeople. The top performers were givers, and they averaged 50 percent more annual revenue than the takers and matchers. Givers dominate the bottom and the top of the success ladder. Across occupations, if you examine the link between reciprocity styles and success, the givers are more likely to become champs - not only chumps. — Adam M. Grant

All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and children ... on a good day. — Roland Merullo