Complaining Quotes - Page 34

• We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Liberty, Agitation, Way

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• I wouldn't want to be 20 now. I know so much more, and I'm much more comfortable in my skin, saggy as it is When I hear young girls complaining about superficial things You're at the peak of your physical beauty right now! Just enjoy it and stop worrying about your thighs being too big If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough

  Susan Sarandon

  Girl, Superficial Things, Worry

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• Russians don't complain, usually.

  Ian Frazier

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• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

  Martin Rees

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Too Much

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• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.

  James Gleick

  Philosophy, Book, Europe

  "TMI: We've Always Had Too Much Information (And We've Survived Just Fine)" by James Gleick, bigthink.com.

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• Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Use, Determined

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

  LeCrae

  Grateful, Perspective, Rose

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• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  Karl Marlantes

  Military, Mean, Unhappy

  "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.

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• Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Way, Comedy, Entertaining

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2011

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• You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.

  Bill Maher

  Country, America, Knows

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• I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

  Mireille Mathieu

  People, Lessons, Realizing

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

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• Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

  Irving Stone

  Knowing, Suffering, Lessons

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• Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Dream, Depressing, Crazy

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• Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

  John Burdett

  Block, Writing, Enemy

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• To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.

  Michael Parenti

  Media, Political, Television

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.98, City Lights Books

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• The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Perception, Shows

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• The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Depressing, Discipline, Spirit

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.39, Sounds True

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• A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
  If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
  Nor has the fool been enriched.
  The thief flatters us by stealing.
  We flatter him by complaining.

  Ben Hecht

  Wise, Men, Yelling

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

  David Nicholls

  Self, Long, One Day

  "In Conversation with David Nicholls". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.co.uk. December 11, 2012.

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• the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

  David Thorne

  Men, Feet, Volume

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.321, Penguin

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• It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

  John Battelle

  Years, Year End, Google

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• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Bored, Boring, Grew Up

  "The beatnik turned natural birth expert". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

  Ivan Krastev

  Art, Democracies Have, People

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• Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Jobs, Numbers, Hours

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