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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  W. H. Auden

  Rain, Cake, Complaining

  Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden (1981). Leonard L. Levinson, in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971), quotes this comment as being said about Auden by someone else.

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• Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
  And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

  Joseph Addison

  Complaining, Pompey, Shade

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

  Bob Dylan

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Comedian

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

  Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

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• Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

  Dennis Prager

  Unhappy, Complaining, Ruins

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Dec 16, 2013

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• Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

  Van Jones

  Determination, Kings, Giving

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• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Reality, Investing

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, People, Understanding

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• No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Reality, Scarcity

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.334, Cosimo, Inc.

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• May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

  Charles Dickens

  People, Literature, May

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.160

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• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Tired, Listening, Complaining

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

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• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Suffering, Pay

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• Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Finishing, Complaining, Politics

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• Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

  Dylan Thomas

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  Mike Tyson

  Sleep, Divorce, Cutting

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• Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Complaining, Action

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• "Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."

  R. A. Lafferty

  Men, Long, People

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1968.

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• I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent...
  - Press in to God when you want to pull away.
  - Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints.
  - Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.)

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Bible, Reading, Godly

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 02, 2014

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Opinion, Harm

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• For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

  Tom Tryon

  Hurt, Cry, Fountain

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