Complaining Quotes - Page 37

• I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.

  Jessie J

  Tired, Sleep, Nine

  "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.

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• If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.

  Joel Plaskett

  Eight, Office, People

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Football, Boys, Talking

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated."

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Civilization, People

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Swings, Political

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• I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?"

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Phones, Dallas

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• In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

  Bjork

  School, Students, Know It All

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, People, Giving

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Good Life, Opportunity, People

  Source: dishmag.com

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, People, Six

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.

  William Henry Drummond

  Worry, Soul, Care

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• Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Always Complaining, Employed

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.357

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

  John Barrymore

  Regret, Watches, Theater

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

  Joe Walsh

  Happiness, Humorous, Sometimes

  Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...

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• Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

  William Morris

  Fear, Eye, Dark

  William Morris (2012). “Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough”, p.239, tredition

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• I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

  Richard Lewis

  Sex, Phones, Ears

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• Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

  Hudson Taylor

  Heart, Reality, Soul

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• What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

  William Wharton

  People, Judging, Faults

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• Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

  William Morris

  Love, Voice, Woods

  William Morris (1873). “Love is Enough, Or, The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality”, p.11

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

  Martha Beck

  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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• Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about it, look at it, and complain about it to whoever will listen. Stop conning yourself into being a volunteer victim, or telling the same old story. You are better than that. It's time to stand up for yourself and your dream. This is the one and only life that you have. Don't waste it watching someone's life - on tv, in a movie, a series or reality show. Take your power back and make a move. Live your life on your terms, and create something new in your life. You Deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Moving, Tired

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