Best 824 quotes in «complaining quotes» category

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

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?

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

We got in after a ten hour drive after sleeping for four hours. I'm not complaining here. I'm really not complaining. Ten hour drive to get here, we unload, we sound check, we get here we take photos, we do this. I haven't eaten anything today. It's like... And I'm not even hungry.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.

Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.

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

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but almost every time, it's turned out to be easier and cheaper and accomplished faster, and they've gained confidence, and then we go farther.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those rooms because voting didn't change those situations for them. That was their livelihood. There's revolution going on all over the world because they actually can't have a voice.

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.