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Quotes About Complaints

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
~ Alan Hansen
I want to get rid of the image that I never turn up on time, because everyone always complains about this habit of mine.
~ Govinda
If they are too quarrelsome to unite against him, and so violent that they'll willingly pay his taxes to be protected from one another, they have no reason to complain.
~ Gene Wolfe
it is astonishing how pleasantly conscience takes our encroachments on those who never complain or have nobody to complain for them.
~ George Eliot
Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!
~ Emily Martin
Typically, we get annoyed when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what would make him or her feel loved.
~ Gary Chapman
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
~ Ian Mckellen
I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.
~ Tony Kushner
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
~ Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
~ Samuel Johnson
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson
No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
~ Denis Leary
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
~ Mariane Pearl
The bad visibility to prevent flying, which Hitler had so earnestly desired, was repeated day after day. It does not, however, appear to have hampered artillery-spotting aircraft on unofficial business in the Ardennes. Bradley received complaints that 'GI's in their zest for barbecued pork were hunting [wild] boar in low-flying cubs with Thompson submachine guns.
~ Antony Beevor
People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.
~ Arnold Arre
Anyone who complains about invasion of privacy shouldn't work in the entertainment business. You can't have it both ways. It's as simple as that.
~ Simon Cowell
Women who are encouraged to complain of 'harassment' have never felt the nasty draft that whistles round a man subjected to female scrutiny. The masculine leer at least is warmed by the breath of inquisitive lust. It may be tedious, even offensive, but it must be preferable to the rubber-glove approach of the female National Health Medical: one's brains as well as balls are up for grabs.
~ John Osborne
I have the profound sense that many people who complain of not being able to rejoice in God treat the knowledge of God as something that ought to be easy to get. They are passive. They expect spiritual things to happen to them from out of nowhere.
~ John Piper
Workers who complained or died were turned into zombies, so labor unrest was never a problem.
~ John Varley
I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine
~ Elton John
The evils of a bad tax are quite sure to be pressed upon the ears of Parliament in season and out of season; the few persons who have to pay it are thoroughly certain to make themselves heard.
~ bagehot walter vii
One by one, members of the Commons, speaking in turn at a lectern in the center of the chamber, added their charges and complaints. The King's councillors, they said, had grown rich at the cost of impoverishing the nation; they had deceived the King and wasted his revenues, causing the repeated demands for fresh subsidies. The people were too poor and feeble to endure further taxation. Let Parliament discuss instead how the King might maintain the war out of his own resources.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Envy of the older nations gnawed at him. He complained to Theodore Roosevelt that the English nobility on continental tours never visited Berlin but always went to Paris.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman