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Quotes About Complaining

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.
~ Nicholas Sparks
We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it's not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If it's worse than expected, we complain. If it's just as bad as predicted, we complain about that, too, because we'll say that the reports are wrong so often, there was no way to know they'd be right this time. It just gives people something to complain about.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I'm complaining.
~ Owen King
I did have a constituent four or five years ago - she never liked me. So, she called, I returned her call, and she was complaining about something, and she said: 'And why do you always use green? I think it's narcissistic.' And I said, 'Well, ma'am, everyone has to have a gimmick, and that's my gimmick.'
~ Gene Green
He had completely lost his listeners. They were complaining to each other in dissatisfaction and disarray. 'That concludes the tour for today,' he added hastily. 'I think we'll skip question time, you've been a truly dreadful audience.' He decided not to bother with his tip box as the mystified, grumbling group was forced to disperse across the windy bridge.
~ Christopher Fowler
I can't believe Joe Koch is complaining about the Goodreads Quote system
~ Christopher Marlowe
Biz çok iyi biliriz ki, hayat?ndan memnun görünenler beÅŸ paras?zd?r veya hak ettikleri gibi günahlar?n?n cezas?n? ödüyorlard?r. DiÄŸer taraftan, en ac?kl? ÅŸekilde yoksulluktan yak?nanlar?n da gizliden gizliye servet sahibi kiÅŸiler olduÄŸunu gayet iyi biliriz.
~ Trevanian
Two old women. They complain, never satisfied. We talk of no food, and of how good it was in our days when it really was no better. We think that we are so old. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.
~ Velma Wallis
It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.
~ la bruyere jean de vii
The more you complain against the stock brokers, the more brokerage firms play dirty to make its web trading platform pages more unresponsive.
~ Lakshheish M Patel
People think complaining about a bad thing will make them feel better. But it just stokes it. It keeps it alive. It's like feeding it. This is why I never liked the expression pet peeve. Why keep a peeve as a pet? Why give it a dish of water and a nice spot to lie down in the corner? It's just choosing to be peeved.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
People think complaining about a bad thing will make them feel better. But it just stokes it. It keeps it alive. It's like feeding it.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
These are people who are eager to complain (or brag) about what's going on in their lives, but when the conversation shifts to you, they become uninterested and suddenly need to go.
~ Cathy Yardley
During their last years it was as if they lay on one deathbed — the dying hands interlaced by habit, by hatred of each other and love of God, the dying mouths murmuring truths without pity and complaining still.
~ Glenway Wescott
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.
~ James Allen
Remember: complaining is draining. So I wanted to make better use of that energy rather than fight it.
~ James Altucher
Actors should stop complaining about nepotism. I am uneducated - I was asked to leave school in Class 11. I came to Mumbai with only Rs 300, yet there is no one in this industry who has not been nice to me. From filmmakers who have given me work to people who have given me advice, I feel blessed to have them in my life.
~ Amit Sadh
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
~ Prince Philip
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
~ Laura Ingraham
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
~ Fred Melamed
Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
~ D. B. Sweeney