Quotes About Complaint
Sorry for swearing. Kindergarten teachers shouldn't swear. I never swear in front of the children. Just in case you're thinking of making an official complaint." "You're off duty," said Jane. "You can say what you want.
~ Liane Moriarty
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
~ Lily Tomlin
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A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.
~ Lionel Shriver
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Picture how bitterly hordes of the frustrated, disappointed, and dispossessed would greet any complaint about being too satisfied and too wealthy. Be that as it may, it really isn't a very nice sensation not to want anything. Thwarted hopes are no picnic, but desire itself is energizing.
~ Lionel Shriver
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In really nice weather I have to lie down like a complaint or a huge glass bottle in the field.
~ Unknown
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Growing up in Vegas there is that complaint that we have no sports team. We have boxing, but no boxers are ever from Vegas, they're always from the east.
~ Frank Mir
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But as I have noticed on more than one occasion, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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Well, to tell you the truth, my man's chucked me out." "So's mine! I say, I don't think much of this inn, do you?" "What
~ Jerome K. Jerome
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Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
~ Julian Baggini
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A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
~ Unknown
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Blame is just an echo of pain, a veil across the face of the one you blame. I blame God. I want to complain to the boss of God about God. What if the boss of God is rain and the only way to speak to rain is to open your mouth to the sky and drown?
~ Victoria Chang
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Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
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Whenever we let go of holding on to ourselves and look at the world around us, whenever we connect with sorrow, whenever we connect with joy, whenever we drop our resentment and complaint, in those moments bodhichitta is here.
~ Pema Chodron
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Above all, though, we don't want a weakly habit of constant complaint. As a rough guide, remember that while the average man is ill for four days a year, a grown woman must expect to spend one fourth of her life in actual pain. Daisy felt a rush of admiration. So far she herself had done nothing like her fair share.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges, Natalie grumbled.
~ Peter Lerangis
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Because I am both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, 'That was so bad,' is always followed by 'And there was so little of it!
~ David Sedaris
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Look: Christ on the Cross died of suffocation, but His only complaint was of thirst. If thirst can be so taxing that even God Incarnate complains about it, imagine the effect on a regular human. It
~ Yann Martel
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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love
~ Yasunari Kawabata
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I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
~ Zadie Smith
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It is not always the going from bad to worse that causes a revolution. It happens more often that a people who have borne without complaint, and apparently without feeling, most oppressive laws, throw them off violently as soon as their weight lightens. The system that a revolution destroys is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience teaches that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually that in which it begins to reform.
~ Hugh Brogan
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No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
~ I Ching
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So it's hardly surprising that Martha bitched up a storm
~ Unknown
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Aw, man, Ava, I should've gotten my own room!" Sully groaned. She
~ Unknown
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Of all the idiotic laws!" exclaimed Guy, when Annie had gone to fetch it. "Of all the damned silly, fussy, old-womanish laws! I don't know what we're coming to. We're supposed to be fighting for freedom, aren't we? If this is a free country, why can't you turn round without being throttled by red tape? Why can't you get a drink when you need one?
~ D.E. Stevenson
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