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• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Literature, Modern

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Made

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• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

  Strong, Jewish Tradition, Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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• Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

  John Kricfalusi

  Running, Humor, Cartoon

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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  Kate Adie

  War, Hair, Literature

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• Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, Today Is The Day, Years

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• So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

  Kim Novak

  Hands, Say Anything, Hitchcock

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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Records, Blame

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• He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Tongue, Wit

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• I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Future, Past

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

  Bill Maher

  Relationship, Funny Love, Love You

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• Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

  Aisha Tyler

  Smart, Thinking, Typecasting

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• I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Mean, Trade

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• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Devil, Heat, Deals

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• So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

  Bernhard Langer

  Twelve, Assistants, Normal

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• We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sometimes, Force, Complaints

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• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  Sally Schneider

  People, Said, Delicious Food

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Funny, Humorous, France

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

  Kathleen Turner

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

  Josh Billings

  Business, Grease, Wheels

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• There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

  Rita Dove

  Life, Motivational, Time

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Funny, Law, Speak

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• Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

  Oliver Kahn

  Games, Helping, Arguing

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  You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Inspiring, Ideas, African American

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