Complaining Quotes - Page 17

• We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

  Rob Delaney

  Years, Space, People

  Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
  The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

  Guy Finley

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 21, 2016

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• Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Boredom

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I can't get no respect.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  No Respect, Complaints, I Can

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• If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

  Christian Slater

  Moving, Cutting, Eyebrows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.

  Richard Keys

  Football, Morning, Favour

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• People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

  Bonnie Bedelia

  Funny, Stupid, Body

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• Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

  Cher

  Sometimes, Complaints, Feels

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• We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Circus, Truth Is

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• They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

  Little Richard

  Noses, Littles, Stuff

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• With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

  Sarah Ferguson

  Sight, Smell, Cooking

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• If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Complaints, My Friends, Ifs

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

  Chaz Bono

  Mother, Mean, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

  Lee Trevino

  Doors, Next, Birth

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5).

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Blessing, Men

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.74, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Betrayal, Weakness, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

  Zig Ziglar

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Grateful

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• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Tradition, Nineteenth Century

  The Observer, November 26, 1989.

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Speech, Public Speaking

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

  John Churton Collins

  Punishment, Vices, Virtue

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