Top 100 Complain'd Quotes
#1. Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
Matthew Arnold
#2. I'd never complain about the attention - ever. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love to do. Not everyone gets that chance every day. This is just part of it, and it comes down to managing my time to make sure I concentrate on my passion, which is the hockey, and have time away from hockey.
Sidney Crosby
#3. Time never changes - we change. We complain that time is the culprit which forces us to change.
Debasish Mridha
#4. A man shouldn't assume his wife was happy just because she didn't complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He'd spanked her for it. That didn't sit right somehow.
Starla Kaye
#5. Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me.
Still, it might be nice to have a cat.
Alex Flinn
#6. No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
Yasmine Bleeth
#9. When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony Bourdain
#10. Change like a tree
When it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing
Debasish Mridha
#11. After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.
Frank Robinson
#14. When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. If you know how blessed you are, you will never ever complain.
Debasish Mridha
#16. If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
Rick Warren
#17. Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
Hattie McDaniel
#18. Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'
Russ Feingold
#20. The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).
D.J. Taylor
#21. Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. "If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I'd hire a psychiatrist."
"Ah," said Jace. "But my services are free."
"I heard that about you.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.
Kirk Acevedo
#23. Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#24. Dad!' I'd complain when I lost track of what he was saying. 'Speak English.'
'Megyn, I will not lower my vocabulary to meet yours,' he said. 'You must raise yours to meet mine.
Megyn Kelly
#25. Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.
Bonnie D. Parkin
#26. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe
#27. I took a deep breath, and shut the bedroom door behind me. Even though we'd put each other through hell, we'd found heaven. Maybe that was more than a couple of sinners deserved, but I wasn't going to complain.
Jamie McGuire
#28. Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, "This isn't fair."
D. A. Carson
#30. We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#31. My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
Catherine Brady
#32. Complain. Whine. Be a fusser. The story needs those as well, because every butt needs a joke, and the audience must laugh. Whether they (and God) laugh at or with us is up to you.
N.D. Wilson
#33. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#34. Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.
"Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee.
"Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.
Patricia Briggs
#35. In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.
Freddy Fender
#36. The funny thing about life is, there's nothing better to do than live it.
D.E. Navarro
#37. I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
Joe Tinker
#38. I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
Ralph Brown
#39. I can't complain about the support I've been given over the years, but I don't like it slipping away. Nobody says 'I'd like to be a bit less successful next year, please'. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don't.
Robbie Williams
#40. Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.
Donald A. Norman
#41. Her lips were suddenly on his again, and he lost his balance and almost fell backward off the bench. Now that he'd finally been able to kiss her, she apparently liked it. He had thought she would take off his blindfold first, but he wasn't about to complain.
Melanie Dickerson
#42. Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.
John Gay
#43. I am a speck of dust in an ocean of time, floating with the waves of change, vanishing with the infinite. I have no time to complain, condemn, or criticize because I am so busy loving, enjoying, appreciating, and being kind.
Debasish Mridha
#44. If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#45. If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.
K.D. Harp
#46. In the next moment, Danvers began to recite the Lord's prayer, which was rather sacrilegious to her mind considering that she suspected he'd burst into flames if he dared enter a church, but she wasn't going to complain.
Lynsay Sands
#47. Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
Tom Clancy
#50. Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
Bisco Hatori
#51. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me we don't belong together.
Leigh Bardugo
#52. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Aneurin Bevan
#53. When a beauty hits you, you never complain! You just start demanding for stronger hits! Find a beauty and let it hit you! Find a spectacular rainbow amongst the clouds, find a river shining glamorously under the sun! Let it hit you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
Publilius Syrus
#55. She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness.
Marissa Meyer
#56. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#57. As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.
Max Lucado
#58. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.
Maile Meloy
#59. Well?"
"Well, what" she asked.
"Are we gonna do this or not?"
... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so you can pat me on the head and buy me something pretty to shut me up?
Kit Rocha
#60. In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want to ask why they don't pack up their things and emigrate.
Carie Maas
#61. Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.
Franz Kafka
#62. I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
Kevin Whately
#63. Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
Robert Graves
#64. Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
Gary Weiss
#65. Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
Katharine Hepburn
#66. If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused. Never complain about anyone. He who brings a complaint is at fault, you should understand that first, then comes next, the talk about the accused.
Dada Bhagwan
#67. We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
Giacomo Casanova
#68. Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
Meg Cabot
#69. There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they're bored and have nothing to do.
Sahara Sanders
#70. Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#72. My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.
Euzhan Palcy
#73. The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely:
'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
Edith Wharton
#75. They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.
Peter Hook
#76. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.
Michael Kors
#77. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.
William Goffe
#79. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#80. Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.
Joaquin Miller
#81. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
#82. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
#83. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith
Charles F. Glassman
#84. Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
#86. I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
George Burns
#87. I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.
Mike Rowe
#88. I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.
Nancy E. Turner
#89. It isn't done easily," he said with a half smile. "I'm just not one to complain overmuch.
Lynn Kurland
#90. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.
Nelson Mandela
#91. I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.
Darren Boyd
#93. God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
Adoniram Judson
#94. Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.
Marilyn Suttle
#95. People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.
Philip Yancey
#96. She tried to complain, but couldn't hide that siren grin that made males trip over their erections.
Cecy Robson
#98. The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
Michelle Franklin
#99. Don't complain to yourselves that you can't go to the mission field! Thank God for bringing the mission field to you!
Brother Andrew
#100. Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.
David Gemmell
