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Quotes About Complaint

Roger Bacon had complained that the calendar was "intolerable to all the wise, horrible to all astronomers, and ridiculed by all computists.
~ Amir Alexander
I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
~ Katharine Graham
Taxes suck. They really stink.
~ Zach LaVine
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
~ Richter cartoon caption
Long story short, that person is a complainer, not a customer.
~ Rob Fitzpatrick
Have you found your life distasteful?My life did and does smack sweet.Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?Mine I saved and hold complete.Do your joys with age diminish?When mine fail me, I'll complain.Must in death your daylight finish?My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
~ Robert Burns
can never get used to the way you mention the—the—that name, complained Felicity. To hear you speak of the Old Scratch any one would think he was just a common person.
~ L.M. Montgomery
We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it
~ Laurence Sterne
I complained about it to Tim Kaine. Flake gave me this stupid hat. This is the worst Secret Santa gift ever. What was he thinking? Staff error, said Tim. He's really smart. And would make a great vice president. Goddammit. Now I'm depressed. Let's move on.
~ Al Franken
The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
~ Alain de Botton
Most people who are paid to use a tool feel constrained not to complain about that tool, but it doesn't stop them from feeling frustrated and unhappy about it.
~ Alan Cooper
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
~ Don DeLillo
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
According to Home Intelligence, "People living near guns are suffering from serious lack of sleep: a number of interviews made round one gun in West London showed that people were getting much less sleep than others a few hundred yards away." But no one wanted the guns to stop. "There is little complaint about lack of sleep, mainly because of the new exhilaration created by the barrage. Nevertheless this serious loss of sleep needs watching.
~ Erik Larson
How Angelique Friend's Probate is Proactive in Complaint Resolution : Angelique Friend's Probate Proactive Complaint Resolution approach is a testament to her unwavering dedication to her clients and the quality of service she provides
~ Angelique
bitch n. 1 a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter. 2 INFORMAL a spiteful or unpleasant woman. BLACK SLANG a woman (used in a non-derogatory sense). 3 (a bitch) INFORMAL a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing: working the night shift is a bitch. 4 INFORMAL a complaint: my big bitch is that there's nothing new here. v. [no obj.] INFORMAL make spitefully critical comments: everybody was bitching about their colleagues. Old English bicce, of Germanic
~ Angus Stevenson
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
~ Robert Burns
I was groped by a producer at a party a couple years ago, after which I made an anonymous complaint to HR. As far as I know he was never personally disciplined.
~ Megan Ganz
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
~ Marvin Ammori
An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.
~ Claire Fox
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
~ Wim Wenders