Complaints Quotes - Page 19

• You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

  Robert Kirkman

  Reading, Character, White

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• This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Complaining, Satisfaction, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.188

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• No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.

  Edgar Dale

  Long, Worry, Focus

  "Can you give the public what it wants?: The need for better communications in editing, writing, broadcasting, advertising, public relations [and] teaching".

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• Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

  W. S. Gilbert

  World, Dull, Flats

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Boss, Stories

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...

  James Woods

  Hard Work, People, Cheesy

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

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• I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

  Edmund White

  America, Childhood, Culture

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Paris, Giving

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• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fighting, Who I Am, Leave Me Alone

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• The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Church, Boring

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• To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Appreciate, Focus

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

  Alan Moore

  Regret, Shadow, Steps

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• Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Eagles, Rags

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Educational, Two, People

  "Child Psychology and Nonsense" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, October 15, 1921.

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• Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

  Julian Baggini

  Simple, Two, Sound

  "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

  Rod Stewart

  Careers, Tomorrow, Ends

  "Rod Stewart: 'I've been one lucky guy'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2009.

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• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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• Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Wall, Smart

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Personality, Historical

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• Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouragement, Appreciation, People

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• My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Tights, Skinny

  "Zooey Deschanel: Tights Are My Safety Blanket" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  J. Cole

  Kids, Cities, Downtown

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• Complaints about reality are immature.

  Timothy Findley

  Reality, Immature

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• Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

  Henry George

  Party, Ideas, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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