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Quotes About Complaints

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.
~ Jane Mayer
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
~ Ben Rattray
And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Will either passengers, or patients, find fault and complain, either the one if they be well carried, or the others if well cured? Do they take care for any more than this; the one, that their shipmaster may bring them safe to land, and the other, that their physician may effect their recovery?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Do not be overheard companining. Not even to yourself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
historiadores diplomáticos e historiadores militares se quejan del poco interés que suscitan sus campos de estudio y sus trabajos.
~ Margaret MacMillan
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
~ Stephen Hawking
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
~ Pema Chodron
The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
~ Katharine Hepburn
The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.
~ Seve Ballesteros
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
The few detectives working the cases complained of the same things the "Ted" Task Force had hated: sitting in a stuffy, cramped office; sorting through mountains of paper, tips, and notes; trying to find the common denominators that might lead them to a suspect they could interrogate.
~ Ann Rule
Most meetings of democrats end with the incantation, 'Let's complain to Europe.' Europe, unfortunately, is tired of hearing how wicked Putin is. It would prefer to be fooled and to hear how good he is.
~ Anna Politkovskaya
Quejarse es estúpido. Actúa u olvídalo.» Stefan Sagmeister
~ Seth Godin
Se zice c? modul cel mai bun de a te plânge este s? schimbi lucrurile în bine.
~ Seth Godin
Wat een gezeur op die formulieren, hè? Maar ik moet doen alsof ik het hardop voorlees. Enzovoort, enzovoort. - Crowley
~ John Flanagan
The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The catfish is a very filthy fish. He loves filth and is the pig of the water. Some people write in, complaining about the fish that swim on their sides, but these fish can be eaten.
~ Elijah Muhammad
he could not give her any attention. She complained, he heard her complaining, but he could do nothing about it. He was single-minded, he always had been
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The women never complained to the officers. It was not that they were afraid of them — quite the reverse, in fact. But their husbands cut up rough with them if they caused trouble. A tough trooper could manfully endure flogging, but wept tears of humiliation if he were lashed by an officer's tongue over something his wife had done.
~ Elizabeth Darrell
Por eso intento recordar cada día que a reyes y poderosos siempre hay que darles gracias, aunque no se tenga de qué, y nunca quejas, aunque se tenga de qué.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Somos rápidos para reclamar y lentos para agradecer
~ Augusto Cury
I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
~ Julian Baggini