Complaining Quotes - Page 33

• A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

  Joan Robinson

  Hearing, Orthodoxy, Failing

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

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• I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

  Scott Ashjian

  Jobs, Choices, Want

  "Tea Party Hopeful - Gives Voters Third Choice". Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 08, 2010.

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• I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

  Jack Cafferty

  Answers, Bother, Knows

  "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.

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• Its hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.

  Dan Byrd

  Blessing, Acting, World

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• I mean its a weekly occurrence that somebody will complain that Top Gear was on last night - and you just sit back and wait for the complaints. But if you start to pay attention to everyones concerns, you end up with something bland and boring. So you sort of have to ignore everybody in order to do the show how we want to do it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Night, Order

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• My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

  Dakota Fanning

  Mom, Hard Work, School

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• The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

  Francois de la Noue

  Silly, Men, Deceit

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• Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
  Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

  William Goffe

  Grief, Sorrow, Leisure

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• Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Stress, Ducks, People

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.

  Ashley Greene

  Want, Vote, Should

  "'Breaking Down' stars Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed want you to vote" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

  Willard Scott

  Weather, Seems

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• Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Silent, Customers

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• If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

  Aristotle

  Men, Together, Toil

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

  Aristotle

  Men, Progress, Common

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2004, Princeton University Press

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• I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

  Alison Croggon

  Cities, Tedium

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• Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

  Anthony Albanese

  Government, Issues, Community

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

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• A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

  Anne Bronte

  Kindness, Men, Wife

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

  Willie McCovey

  Baseball, Play

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• In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Brother, Ebay, Parent

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• No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

  Victor Villasenor

  Light, Reaching, Grows

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• Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

  George Will

  Government, Voice, Suspicion

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Nerves, Disease, Germs

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hurt, Children, People

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• Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

  Jay Leno

  Income, Want, Pay

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