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Quotes About Complaints

Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
~ Edgardo Osorio
Adorable as she was, Northey was by no means an easy proposition. She was now in love, for the first time (or so she said, but is it not always the first time, and for that matter, the last?) and complained about it with the squeaks and yelps of a thwarted puppy.
~ Nancy Mitford
Whenever I do complain about things, you hear people say, 'you're on this money, so get on with it.' I give up with hoping things will change because that's some people's mentality towards racism.
~ Danny Rose
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
~ burton robert
The older generation of Vikings no doubt complained that the younger generation were getting soft and did not rape and pillage with the same dedication as in years gone by.
~ C. Peter Herman
Sleep was a bumpy road for Willie that night. In between dozing and leaning out the window to plead with Booboo to be quiet, Willie was kept awake by his dog's howls, yowls, whines, whimpers, barks, yips, and moans. Booboo's range of loud noises was impressive.
~ C.S. Adler
There's a story about David Mamet, a pure genius of human behavior. When told about the complaints of two famous cast members in one of his plays, he joked "If they didn't want to be stars, they shouldn't have had those awful childhoods." It's not an original revelation that some who have weathered great challenges when they were young, created great things as adults...People with the most secret childhoods can make the most public contributions.
~ Gavin de Becker
When any problem occurs, you have two choices: you can get upset about it, or you can simply figure out what needs to be done. Getting upset has a seductive quality to it; there is rich drama to be had there. The cost is that there is no happiness to be had. Happiness opens up when you drop the drama and start looking for what needs to be done. Any relationship improves when both people shift from complaints to statements of what they want.
~ Gay Hendricks
But, even after two years, all we have is a great process on paper that no one follows and a tool that no one uses. When I pester people to use them, all I get are complaints and excuses.
~ Gene Kim
Nothing unifies people better than complaining about it.
~ Gene Kim
Always bring money along with your complaints.
~ Plautus
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
~ Blaise Pascal
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
~ Beau Willimon
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
~ Serge Schmemann
Nobody wants to hear celebrity complain
~ Jennifer Lopez
In Religion, he gets a lot of complaints about people talking to God in overly loud voices.
~ Susan Orlean
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
People, generally, do not complain of high prices, providing the "service" or embellishment of the merchandise is such as to pave the way for high prices. What people do complain of, and rightly so, is high prices and "sloppy" service.
~ Napoleon Hill
If your mental attitude is negative, if you complain and find fault with others, it will offset whatever you do, even if you do more than you are paid to do.
~ Napoleon Hill
Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.
~ Nick Hornby
And how am I supposed to do that?" "You could start by speaking up a little. No one listens to us anymore when we complain. They
~ Kent Nerburn
Captain John Smith, the "president" of the colony during much of its earliest history, regularly complained of the quality of those sent to establish the settlement. The colony, he said, would have been better off if the company in London had sent "one hundred good labourers (in place of) a thousand such Gallants as were sent me, that would doe nothing but complaine, curse, and despaire."15
~ Kieran Doherty