Quotes and Sayings about Complaint
"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Happiness, Complaint)
"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Time, Complaint, First, First love, Man)
"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
- Robert Barany
(Related: Complaint, Right)
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: Complaint)
"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Complaint, Corruption, Delay, Ethics, Republican)
"Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day."
- Heston Blumenthal
(Related: Work, Complaint, Day, Now)
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Work, Civil rights, Complaint, Credit)
"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
- Joseph Brant
(Related: Complaints)
"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Character, Complaint, Firmness)
"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Change, Time, Complaining, Complaints)
"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
(Related: People, Being, Complaint, Fact, May)
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Virtue, Complaints, First, Justice)
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Life, Complaining, Complaints)
"Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink."
- Aynsley Dunbar
(Related: Complaints)
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Complaint)
"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
(Related: Complaint, Pain, Pleasure, Reality)
"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
- Francesco Guicciardini
(Related: Change, Time, Causes, Complaints, Faces, Waste)
"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Complaints, Problems, Woman, Writing)
"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination."
- Anita Hill
(Related: History, Sex, Complaints, Discrimination, Race)
"Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross."
- Michael Isikoff
(Related: Koran, Complaints, Rules)
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Movies, Awards, Complaints, Old, Pretty)
"I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Movies, Awards, Complaints, Pretty)
"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Complaint, Contempt, Fortune, Pity)
"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Love, Vision, Complaint, Joy, Mind, Selfishness)
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: People, Complaint, Understanding)
"As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Army, Complaint, Will)
"Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?"
- Jonathan King
(Related: Complaints, Man)
"Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Men, Complaint, Exhaustion, Fatigue)
"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Complaints, Divorce, Lawyers)
"The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Education, Complaint, Difficulty)
"In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since."
- Mark Lloyd
(Related: Government, People, Complaints, Country, Revolution, Media, Property)
"Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Winning, Awards, Complaints)
"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support."
- Jane Mayer
(Related: People, Complaints, Military, Pretty, Public, Support)
"I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity."
- Rita Mero
(Related: Women, Complaint, Victims)
"It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Time, Thought, Complaint, Culture, Eternity, Nothing)
"I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Complaints, Pretty)
"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."
- John Milton
(Related: Men, Complaints, Liberty)
"The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them."
- Graham Nelson
(Related: People, Impression, Complaint)
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Complaint, Revenge)
"I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament."
- Greg Norman
(Related: Complaints, Golf, Saying)
"I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Complaint, Elections, Insecurity, Iraq)
"Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Complaint, Evening)
"Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Complaint, Voice)
"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: College, Complaint, Nothing, Students)
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Complaint, Man, Misfortune)
"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
- Nassau William Senior
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Wealth, Attention, Complaint, Consideration, First, Grave, Obstacles, Respect)
"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Heart, Complaint, Income, London, Man)
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Money, Complaint)
"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
- John Millington Synge
(Related: Death, Complaint, Grief, Woman, Years)
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
- William Temple
(Related: Time, Purpose, Complaints, Present)
"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"
- Tertullian
(Related: Complaint, Living)
"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
(Related: Complaint, Singing)
"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
- Robert Toombs
(Related: Cause, Complaint, states)
"Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint."
- Garry Trudeau
(Related: Goals, Complaint, Culture, Frustration, Pain, Understanding)
"Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul."
- Wim Wenders
(Related: Soul, Complaint, Spirit)
"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."
- Dick York
(Related: Love, People, Complaints, Television, Wrong)
"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
- Tina Yothers
(Related: Acting, Childhood, Complaints)