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• Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

  Keith Ward

  Sunday, Thinking, People

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

  Patrick Ewing

  Athlete, People, Needs

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• It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Pain, Taken

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• Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

  Robert Greene

  Trying, Justify

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Able, I Can

  "Snow Country".

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• You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Long, Giving

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.122, CUA Press

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• Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beautiful, Jobs, Voice

  Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Past, People, Wish

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• Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

  Maury John

  Basketball, Fun, Mistake

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• The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Atheist, Wind

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• Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.

  James Dobson

  Children, Real, Two

  James Dobson (1976). “Dare to Discipline”

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

  J. I. Packer

  Today, Ministers, Preaching

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• Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red?

  Julius Malema

  Doe, Red, Faces

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• I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Fighting, Grumbling

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Politician

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• A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Player, Men

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• Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

  Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  Stars, Spots

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• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

  John A. Gotti

  Blessed, Doors, Healthy

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• You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mean, Done, Planning

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• There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, Church, Generations

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that.

  Harry Styles

  People, Goes On, Want

  "This One Direction interview got us death threats". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 24, 2015.

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• Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

  Joe Montana

  Chance, Unprepared

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