Complaining Quotes - Page 10

• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

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• Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

  Jill Abramson

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

  Damian McGinty

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  "Glee Star Secrets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2012.

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• People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

  Will Carling

  People, Enjoy, Sportsman

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• Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Suffering, Christ, Dare

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• Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 05, 2011

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• Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.

  John Lachs

  Life, Love Is, Alive

  John Lachs (1998). “In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die”, p.136, Vanderbilt University Press

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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  Yul Vazquez

  Two, Trying, Acting

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• If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

  Matt Lucas

  Night, Wake Up, Lasts

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• There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fortune

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• If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Television, Levels, Helping

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.102, Verso

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• It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

  William Feather

  Real, Work, Competition

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• An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Doors

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• The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

  Jeff Bezos

  Leadership, Book, Technology

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• Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dull, Congress

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.

  Drake

  Men, Hatred, Needs

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

  Jay Duplass

  Hobbies, Needs, Primaries

  "Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Creators of 'The Puffy Chair'". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 17, 2006.

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• As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.

  Robin Lakoff

  Girl, Children, Women

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• I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Leadership, Queens, Play

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• You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Differences, Judging, Doe

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• It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Truth, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.119, Penguin

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• People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Impact, People

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 04, 2011

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