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Quotes About Complaint

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Napoleon in his classical manner at one time declared: 'I have the right to answer any complaint against me with an eternal "this is what I am."' [He] stands aloof from the whole world and accepts conditions from no one.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What have I done to deserve this' if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Angrily, even tearfully, he complained of the divisions within the clergy, where "some be too stiff in their old Mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new Sumpsimus.
~ G.J. Meyer
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
~ James Boswell
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.
~ Kirron Kher
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
Petrarch complained that, so sloppy were the scribes of his day, and so full of errors were the manuscripts they produced, "an author would not recognize his own work." 7
~ Ross King
Destrói a opinião, e destruído estará o pensamento "fui prejudicado". Destrói a queixa "fui prejudicado", e destruído estará o dano.
~ Marco Aurélio
Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed. Take away the complaint, I have been harmed, and the harm is taken away.   That which does not make a man worse than he was, also does not make his life worse, nor does it harm him either from without or from within.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, "I have been harmed." Take away the complaint, "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgement now. But if anything in thy own disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Take away your judging thought, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed. Take away the complaint, I have been harmed, and the harm is taken away.
~ Marcus Aurelius
siendo conscientes de nuestra tarea y no nos quejemos, que ya habrá una salida. Dios nunca ha abandonado a nuestro pueblo. A lo largo de
~ Anne Frank
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
~ e. e. cummings
My leg hurts," the soldier whined. "Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?
~ John Flanagan
And still we love the evil cause And of the just effect complain; We tread upon life's broken laws And murmur at our self-inflicted pain.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
He that had as good left for his improvement as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour:
~ John Locke
This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.
~ John Marsden
I want my money back!
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Taryn sighed. 'You know, there were always people who found cause for complaint about falling birth rates whenever women in developing nations got educations and the means of supporting themselves.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Dottie was not a woman to complain, having been taught by her decent Aunt Edna one summer—it seemed like a hundred years ago, and practically was—that a complaining woman was like pushing dirt beneath the fingernails of God, and this was an image Dottie had never been able to fully dislodge.
~ Elizabeth Strout