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• I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Fighting, Grumbling

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Politician

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• A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Player, Men

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• Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

  Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  Stars, Spots

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• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

  John A. Gotti

  Blessed, Doors, Healthy

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• You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mean, Done, Planning

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• There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, Church, Generations

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that.

  Harry Styles

  People, Goes On, Want

  "This One Direction interview got us death threats". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 24, 2015.

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• Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

  Joe Montana

  Chance, Unprepared

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• Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

  Robert B. Parker

  Block, Heard, Plumber

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• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Circus, Tvs, Politician

  "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Easy, Doing Good

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• News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

  Frank Miller

  Objectivity, News, Propaganda

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• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Government, Blame

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• If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 20, 2012

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• 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

  Stupid, People, Facts

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.39

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• Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Kings, Missing

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Alcohol, Praise

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• Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

  Gene Tunney

  Sleep, Cells, Blood

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• You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  People, Appreciate

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• Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kids, Today, Used

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Athlete, Winter

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• Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

  Lisa Gardner

  Men, Laughing, Wimps

  Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.10, Bantam

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• There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Ideas, Needs

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