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Quotes About Complaints

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
~ John Milton
One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions, but I don't like them.
~ Noam Chomsky
For reasons both explicable and debatable, Xers complained less pedantically than the demographic they followed and less vehemently than the demographic that came next.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard...
~ Claire Messud
Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.
~ Clive Barker
Time would be precious from now on. It would tick by, of course, as it always had, but Harvey was determined he wouldn't waste it with sighs and complaints. He'd fill every moment with the seasons he'd found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases.
~ Clive Barker
And if I, as pastor, have failed to do my part to train my leaders to lead, what right do I have to complain about the way they do their job or make their decisions?
~ Larry Osborne
I analyzed hundreds of consumer complaint letters sent to my brother, the consumer activist Ralph Nader throughout the 1960s and 1970s, in the hope that he would do something about their problems. Some of those letters were published in No Access to Law and formed the basis
~ Laura Nader
I did not know it would be like this," complained Viviana. "I hate slugs." "They like you," said Caitri, subtracting one from Viviana's sleeve. "Anyway, you said you wanted to come," she added primly. "I said I wanted to come but I never said I would not grumble.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Removed. Three years ago, it says. Someone complained, probably. That it encouraged pro-PAO sentiment, or something. Some of our donors have—opinions. On China, or in this case, anything that vaguely resembles it.
~ Celeste Ng
Usually our feelings of being exploited and other complaints of that nature are merely the squealing of ego and nothing more.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
You know you're a skydiver when on windy days you go to the drop zone anyway and complain about the weather.
~ Skydiving joke
And no resident in their right mind would go over their heads to the mighty Housing Authority honchos in Manhattan, who did not like their afternoon naps disturbed with minor complaints about ants, toilets, murders, child molestation, rape, heatless apartments, and lead paint that shrunk children's brains to the size of a full-grown pea in one of their Brooklyn locations, unless they wanted a new home sleeping on a bench at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
~ James McBride
Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.
~ Drake
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
~ Julie Burchill
Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
In India, going to a police station is not the most pleasant experience.
~ Tanushree Dutta
Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers, and shout, 'You're a racist!'
~ Robin DiAngelo
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
~ Thomas Jefferson
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have diminished those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain
~ Thomas Sowell