Complaints Quotes - Page 10

• Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

  Julian Baggini

  Opportunity, People, Unhappy

  "For God's sake, start moaning" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2007.

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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Nice, Giving

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, People, Doe

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• No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Husband, Real

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• I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

  Bill Bradley

  New York, Cities, Assumption

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

  William Feather

  Compliment, Know How, Knows

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

  Moliere

  Doctors, Remarkable, Decency

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Disease, Nervous

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• Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Opposites, People

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2016). “The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight”, p.80, Convergent Books

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• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Men, Done

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

  Oliver Sacks

  Health, People, Feelings

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

  David Cross

  Average, People, Sides

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 02, 2009.

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• The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Sailor, Saws, Weakness

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• Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Voice, People, Oppression

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.13, Library of America

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• All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.

  Saadi

  Sunday, Next Day, Here And There

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• In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Long, Spouse, Forgiven

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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Complaining, Harm

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

  Emily Yoffe

  Mother, Law, Common

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

  Dan John

  Workout, Thinking, Long

  "Questions and Answers About Lifting. How do I prevent overtraining?". danjohn.net.

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• My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Children, Decision, Answers

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• Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Confusion, Confusing, Use

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Dramatic Situations, Two, Differences

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

  Sanaa Lathan

  Sexy, Men, Wraps

  "Sanaa Lathan Talks Bad Weaves, ‘Best Man 2’ and that Nasty Kobe Byrant Rumor!". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. January 27, 2012.

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