Comprehensively Define Quotes

#1. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

William Feather

#2. Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

#4. Don't let anyone tell you, ever, that this is a zero-sum game. Your genius does not threaten me. It delights and inspires me.

Seanan McGuire

#5. One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

Peter Capaldi

#6. An infant no more than six weeks old
a person in the still floppy, stunned by visual stimuli, sucking, arm and foot waving, grunting, grimacing phase of life. How I had loved that stage in my own Daisy's path of becoming. [p.46]

Siri Hustvedt

#7. How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot.

Anne Sexton

#8. Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#9. My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Edward Abbey

#10. To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

#11. You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind ... we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#12. Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

William Shakespeare

#13. Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

Robert Jordan

#14. I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.

Rabindranath Tagore