Complaining Quotes - Page 28

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  We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Should, First Lady

  "The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by ill Adler, (p. 174), 2004.

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• If you want more energy, put yourself in situations where energy is required. Your body will naturally respond and always produce the energy you need, but not if you're just sitting around complaining about not having enough energy.

  Hal Elrod

  Energy, Needs, Wake Up

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Apr 13, 2010

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• Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'

  Hugh Ross

  California, Rushing, Atheism

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• My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

  Nathan Fillion

  Blessed, Good Day, Blessing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Vices, Deceit

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• The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, World, Disease

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

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• Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

  Joseph Addison

  Entertainment, Novelty, Usual

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.474

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• When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Violence, Compliment

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• It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Advice, Worst

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• The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Regret, Responsibility, Light

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• Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Larks, Lovers

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Canongate Burns”, p.860, Canongate Books

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Song, Phones, Cells

  "The Lost Art Of Telephone Conversation" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

  Matt Kemp

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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• With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, Government, Order

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• Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  New York, Years, Luxury

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• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

  Francois Guizot

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Clothes, People, Singing

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Kindness, People, Conservative

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• When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Dating, Romance

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