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Quotes About Complaints

People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
~ Jane Austen
mankind has a tendency to project his own guilt and his own errors upon a father-god image, who it seems must grow weary of so many complaints. The
~ Jane Roberts
The best couples, or the most successful couples, are the ones with a really low negativity threshold. These are the couples that don't let anything go unnoticed and allow each other some room to complain.
~ Hannah Fry
The Dinakaran episode has brought to the surface the vexed problem of the arbitrary and totally unsatisfactory manner of selecting and appointing judges as well as the unresolved problem of dealing with complaints of misconduct and corruption against judges.
~ Prashant Bhushan
I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
~ Cindy Gallop
You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.
~ Steve Winwood
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
~ Stephen Colbert
Higher pricing means that we can sell fewer units—and thus manage fewer customers—and fulfill our dreamlines. It's faster. Higher pricing attracts lower-maintenance customers (better credit, fewer complaints/questions, fewer returns, etc.). It's less headache. This is HUGE. Higher pricing also creates higher profit margins. It's safer.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Complaints about reality are immature.
~ Timothy Findley
One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth.
~ Tom Cunningham
I have always stuck to my on-screen image and I have no complaints as I have got some meaty roles coming my way.
~ Navya Nair
She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
~ Oscar Wilde
I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.
~ P.C. Cast
Scotties are smelly, even the best of them. You will recall how my Aunt Agatha's McIntosh niffed to heaven while enjoying my hospitality. I frequently mentioned it to you.' 'Yes, sir.' 'And this one is even riper. He should obviously have been bedded out in the stables.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.
~ Dale Carnegie
What was once a careless complaint among friends can now get you fired.
~ Dale Carnegie
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number that re-enlist.
~ James Garner
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
~ Jonathan Swift
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.
~ Wendell Berry
It's as though the leaders aspire to create a complaint-free service rather than an extraordinary one.
~ Chip Heath
One of the surest signs of a bad or declining relationship with a customer is the absence of complaints. Nobody is ever that satisfied, especially not over an extended period of time. The customer is either not being candid or not being contacted. —Theodore Levitt Business School Professor, Harvard University
~ Chip R. Bell
I knew I was intelligent—wasn't Dhai Ma always complaining about how overly smart I was? I knew enough to control passion. I visualized myself as a great queen, dispensing wisdom and love. Panchaali the Peacemaker, people would call me. The sorceress laughed.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sugarcoat your complaints a little bit, as you would with a good friend whose feelings you don't want to hurt. (Gottman calls this the "soft start-up.")
~ Christine Carter