Quotes About Complaints

It was because I had seen so much of injustice and domineering little groups, as well as heard the complaints of so many of the best people of the country, that I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible against half-educated leaders being permitted to lead nations into war.

Kelly's grades aren't bad, which always amazes me when I see how much time she wastes. They're so good, in fact, that I can't get myself to complain about the nonsense she finds to do. Ronnie goes right to the bottom line, as he does with everything else, if I mention her distractions. 'She's doing well. Why complain?' he replies, and I stop. Loneliness has all sorts of ways of showing itself. It's perhaps the most inventive feeling of all.

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Whenever I meet children's parents, they complain that the kids don't sleep until they listen to my whistle baja song! My songs have captivated the kids.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

As Paul Friedman from the University of Kansas put it, flak catchers are "lightning rods" and "hassle handlers" who take and absorb "jolts sent by the dissatisfied." Taking such heat is part of the job for receptionists; executive assistants; security guards; spokespersons for companies, universities, and political campaigns; people who work in complaint departments; and bouncers.

But people only complain about something because they are committed to the value or importance of something else.

In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to consider every possibility: assuming you spent one second considering each one, it would come to more than half a million years. The unhappy guest will assume, of course, that you are being histrionic.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

And to think, Will Farnaby commented, to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.

those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.

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The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

Incidentally, that is why complaints against the weather are complaints against God Himself—He purposefully controls it just as it is happening. This is also why natural "disasters" are called "acts of God.

When Robert irritated men of lofty station, they complained to the President, and

Conservative critics of Obama seized on his aspiration for 'empathy,' declaring it an invitation to judicial activism - as if empathy could not coexist with impartiality - and later made it a subtext of their confirmation complaints.

Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.

They are sick of their country's being seen as nothing more than a mafia-ridden kleptocracy—even though they are the first to complain about corruption.

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.