Complaining Quotes - Page 38

• Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Rose, Giving, Trying

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• The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

  George Sarton

  Ignorance, Darkness, Historian

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• You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

  Randi Rhodes

  Cutting, Hot Flashes, Ovaries

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• There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.

  Martin Jacques

  Religious, Ignorance, Profound

  "Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Listening, Disease, Germs

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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Arsonists

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• They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!

  Eric Williams

  Cheating, Men, Knowing

  Source: blacksportsonline.com

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• We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

  Bruce Campbell

  Problem, Solve

  “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” Roundtable, diaboliquemagazine.com. October 31, 2015.

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• Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Struggle, Opportunity, People

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• Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Daughter, Poverty, Spirit

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.234, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Giving, Finding Yourself

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• You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Worry, People

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• People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

  Charles Darwin

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

  Diplo

  Kids, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.

  Theophilus London

  Beach, Song, People

  "SXSW: Why Theophilus London Listens to Himself Singing in the Shower on His iPod". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. March 16, 2013.

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• The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

  George Karl

  Trying, Matter, Problem

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• When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Responsibility, Needs

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

  Criss Jami

  People, Judging, Looks

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Moments, Consideration, Good Things

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• A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone’s complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It’s only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up.

  Jack Ma

  Baby, Giving Up, Opportunity

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• I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, People, Lasts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 420, 1895.

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• If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Grace, Promise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pride, Men, Forgiving

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• The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

  John Dryden

  Dying, Woe, Flutes

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

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• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Government, Liberty

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