Complaints Quotes - Page 11

• One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Solitude, Mind

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• One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

  Kevin McKidd

  Character, Hook, Tvs

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Names, People

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• Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

  John Prine

  Philosophy, Bewildered

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• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

  Lee Trevino

  Doors, Complaining, Next

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• The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever God gives is so much. Then you always feel grateful. But your desires are so much that whatsoever God gives always looks so little; and you feel frustrated, and you feel complaints, and you cannot feel grateful. And without gratitude, there is no possibility of prayer arising in your heart. Gratitude is prayer.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Jobs, Long

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Athlete, Suffering

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.18, Random House

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• Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

  Nancy McKenzie

  Life, Inspirational Life, Live Life

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• If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Cash, Want

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Hurt, Grateful

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

  Dean Martin

  Drinking, Night, Drunk

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• I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Silence, Political, Criticism

  Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham (2001). “The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 And 1805”, p.3, University of Missouri Press

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• It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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

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• The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Blessing, May

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• Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Class, Age

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.123

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• In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Light, Path

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Prayer, Heaven, Devotion

  Jonathan Swift (1755). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory”, p.227

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• When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Impossible Things, People

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Caring

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• There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.

  Gardner C. Taylor

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.

  Michael Ruse

  Christian, Alternatives, Today

  "How evolution became a religion: creationists correct?". Article by Michael Ruse, May 13, 2000.

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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