{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm sure I look like a drowned cat.'You look fine. The wet look works for you.'I scowled. 'Now I know you're lying.","author":"Jennifer L. Armentrout","tags":["compliment","daemon","funny","katy"],"id":5405,"author_id":"Jennifer+L.+Armentrout"},{"text":"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.","author":"Clarence Darrow","tags":["know","compliment","ignorant "],"id":17343,"author_id":"Clarence+Darrow"},{"text":"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["brainwash","compliment","conformity","criticism","herd","herd-mentality","independent-thinking","indoctrination","shakespeare"],"id":27658,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).","author":"Susan Abulhawa","tags":["american","arabic","compliment","expression","gift","gratitude","language","thank-you","translation"],"id":29173,"author_id":"Susan+Abulhawa"},{"text":"A complaint is a compliment of negativity.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["complaints","compliment","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","inspirational","negativity","philosophy","quotes","what-is-a-complaint"],"id":33028,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["brand","brand-yourself","branding","commend","compliment","diligence","diligently","dont-give-up","don-t-stop","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","keep-it-up","never-give-up","people","personal-branding","watch-out"],"id":58866,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply  for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is  in fact  a subtle detraction.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["compliment"],"id":63090,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["kiss","compliment","through "],"id":85191,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.","author":"Jeffrey Fry","tags":["best","compliment","idea","make","making","own","ownership","someone","stealing"],"id":87407,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}